Victim identified in Saturday night murder
Published 12:26 pm Tuesday, March 10, 2020
- Luis D. Valdez
The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the murder of a woman Saturday night after an apparent domestic dispute.
According to an IPSO spokesman, deputies responded to a report of a possible homicide around 10 p.m. Saturday in the 5400 block of Norris Road. Deputies said they found a woman, who the Iberia Parish Coroner identified as Stephanie Worley, 38, dead in a camper trailer on the property.
The victim’s boyfriend, Luis D. Valdez, 59, was taken into custody at the scene. He was booked into the Iberia Parish Jail on one count of second-degree murder.
Witnesses told deputies the couple had been fighting during the day, according to the spokesman. Evidence of a disturbance was visible inside and outside the home.
The Iberia Parish Corner’s Office will release the victim’s name and manner of death.
The IPSO spokesman said the investigation into the death is ongoing.