The family of an elderly Brentwood woman is demanding answers after she was injured while in police custody and later died of those injuries.

On Sept. 26, police were called to a home on Broderick Drive in Brentwood. Outside, they found 72-year-old Yolanda Ramirez, who had arrived to take her brother to a doctor's appointment. She was having some kind of argument with another family member inside the house.

"There was some kind of disturbance of the peace situation. And that's how they were called to go there," said Yolanda's son, Rich Ramirez. "I'm starting to hear about some of the events that had transpired through witnesses, neighbors that are coming forward. I haven't heard anything from the police at all."

Ramirez said police have yet to speak directly with the family about what

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