Woman’s death investigated
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NEW IBERIA — A man arrived home for lunch Tuesday and found his wife unresponsive inside their New Iberia home, authorities said.
News of the woman’s death arrived while Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal was being sworn into office.
Police sirens punctuated the close of the ceremony as deputies left for the scene.
Wendell Raborn, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, called it a suspicious death and did not rule out the possibility of homicide.
At the scene Tuesday, yellow police tape roped off the home in the 500 block of Robert S Drive in New Iberia.
Raborn had few details to release regarding the woman’s death. He said the Iberia Parish Coroner’s Office is conducting an autopsy. Other details are being withheld until those results come back.
The home borders a park on Bank Street that neighbor Judy Dodge said had once been safe and clean but had fallen into disrepair.
The elderly couple’s home has direct access to the park behind it, with only a fence separating the two.
Dodge’s son, Ryan, had been at home that day and said everything seemed fine when he left for lunch around 12:15 p.m.
Judy Dodge said the couple, whose names have not been released, moved into the neighborhood several years ago from Jeanerette.
The woman did not work and the husband had recently taken a new job, Dodge said.
She described the couple as friendly and said she often saw the woman out in her front yard, tending to her yard and to the flowers that lined the walls of her home.
An investigator was seen walking the distraught husband along the street toward a car parked past the police tape. The investigator kept his hand on the man’s shoulder as the husband cried and shook.
News of the woman’s death arrived while Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal was being sworn into office.
Police sirens punctuated the close of the ceremony as deputies left for the scene.
Wendell Raborn, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, called it a suspicious death and did not rule out the possibility of homicide.
At the scene Tuesday, yellow police tape roped off the home in the 500 block of Robert S Drive in New Iberia.
Raborn had few details to release regarding the woman’s death. He said the Iberia Parish Coroner’s Office is conducting an autopsy. Other details are being withheld until those results come back.
The home borders a park on Bank Street that neighbor Judy Dodge said had once been safe and clean but had fallen into disrepair.
The elderly couple’s home has direct access to the park behind it, with only a fence separating the two.
Dodge’s son, Ryan, had been at home that day and said everything seemed fine when he left for lunch around 12:15 p.m.
Judy Dodge said the couple, whose names have not been released, moved into the neighborhood several years ago from Jeanerette.
The woman did not work and the husband had recently taken a new job, Dodge said.
She described the couple as friendly and said she often saw the woman out in her front yard, tending to her yard and to the flowers that lined the walls of her home.
An investigator was seen walking the distraught husband along the street toward a car parked past the police tape. The investigator kept his hand on the man’s shoulder as the husband cried and shook.
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