'She was so stiff': Man beat girlfriend until her brain swelled and then stayed with her unconscious body for hours without calling for help

A bluish Louisiana antheral has learned his destiny for beating his woman until her encephalon swelled and past staying with her without seeking assistance portion she laic unconscious.

Brandon Lindsey, 36, was sentenced to beingness successful situation for the murder of 23-year-old Heaven Weed, the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office announced. Lindsey volition not beryllium eligible for parole oregon a suspension of his sentence.

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On March 1, 2023, Weed and Lindsey went to a nightclub successful Caddo Parish, which is located successful the northwestern country of the authorities and borders Texas. As nighttime turned to morning, the 2 of them returned to Weed's home, wherever Lindsey had been surviving for astir a month.

At immoderate point, Lindsey is believed to person severely beaten Weed, causing "extensive injuries."

Lindsey went to enactment that adjacent time — March 2, 2023 — and returned to Weed's location astatine astir 11:45 a.m. GPS and telephone information showed that helium stayed determination until Weed's parent arrived astatine astir 8 p.m., according to authorities. When she came in, helium left, stating, "she's messed up."

According to the territory attorney's office, "the unfortunate was astatine the residence with Lindsey astir 18 hours" earlier her parent recovered her "unconscious and unresponsive" and took her to Ochsner LSU Health infirmary successful Shreveport, Louisiana.

Weed's injuries included "swelling of the brain, fractured ribs, lacerations and bruising each implicit her body." Authorities said "she was truthful stiff it took respective exigency unit to determination her from the car to the attraction area."

About 10 days aft she was admitted to the hospital, Weed died from her "closed-head traumatic encephalon injury." Her organs were donated.

Law enforcement investigating what happened arrived astatine Weed's location and noted "a beardown odor of bleach and different cleansing products, including Clorox wipes and Fabuloso." Police "documented humor spatter successful the surviving room, room and pantry and noted aggregate locations wherever humor appeared to person been wiped."

Investigators besides grabbed respective items from the washer, including a mattress topper, a pillow, and a towel, "all containing the victim's blood." According to police, "Lindsey's covering worn astatine the nine besides contained the victim's blood."

After Lindsey was arrested by the Shreveport Police Department, a erstwhile woman of his testified that helium abused her for years. She said helium gave her "black eyes, fractured ribs and a breached jaw."

"She recounted instances wherever helium dragged her by her hair, kicked her successful the caput and struck her with his fist successful her face," the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office said. "Her injuries were truthful important she experienced seizures arsenic a result. She testified she had to get dental implants owed to harm to her teeth. She besides testified astir the rhythm of maltreatment and her eventual escape."

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Weed was remembered arsenic having had "an adventurous soul" and being idiosyncratic who "passionately lived her beingness to the fullest," according to her obituary. "Her courageousness and determination gave her the quality to execute thing she enactment her caput to."

"She is the archetypal successful her contiguous household to postgraduate college," the obituary goes on. "Heaven brought joyousness with her wherever she went, including to her occupation and enactment household astatine Bally's Casino successful Shreveport. She was a selfless idiosyncratic who shared her emotion for beingness and others with everyone she met."