METAIRIE, La. – A man faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of his girlfriend, who was found bludgeoned in her suburban New Orleans apartment over the weekend, officials said Monday.
Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas, 43, was arrested early Monday with his three children in a trailer park in Katy, Texas, Jefferson Parish sheriff’s Col. John Fortunato said.
“Unless he fights extradition to Jefferson Parish, he will be returned here and face a second-degree murder charge” in the death of Heidi Monroy, 24, Fortunato said.
Fortunato said Monterroso-Navas’ three children were with him at the time of his arrest and are safe. Monroy was the mother of the youngest, age 2.
Around 3:35 a.m. Sunday, Monroy’s two other children, ages 5 and 8, asked neighbors for help, Fortunato said. Deputies found the woman unconscious with head wounds and she died in her Metairie apartment, Sheriff Newell Normand said.