Eugene Louis Jocques has been identified as one of the suspects in connection to the death of 22-year-old influencer Beauty Couch.
Eugene Louis Jocques, who is 21 years old, was arrested on Saturday, 26th August 2023, and charged with murder, arson and aggravated assault.
He was found in Lousiana, according to the St. Tammany Parrish Sheriff’s Proactive Enforcement Unit.
Eugene Louis Jocques is waiting to be extradited back to Cobb County where he’ll have to face a judge.
Officials did not reveal a motive for the murder, nor his connection to Couch.
What happened to Beauty Katera Couch?
The circumstances surrounding Couch’s death are currently unknown.
Austell firefighters responded to a brush fire shortly after midnight on Wednesday and found a vehicle ablaze, according to local media reports.
They put out the fire and took the burnt out vehicle to a local scrapyard.
Fire crews found the registered owners of the vehicle, Couch’s parents, and it was when they phoned them that they revealed their daughter had not been seen since the previous night.
Austell police were called and when they returned to the scene to search the area they found Couch’s body nearby.
The Cobb County Police Department said on social media that the “Cobb County Police Department Major Crimes Unit is investigating a homicide at the request of the City of Austell Police Department.”
Who was Beauty Katera Couch?
Beauty Katera Couch was a 22-year-old Instagram influencer. She lived in Austell, a city in Atlanta, United States.
She was also a dancer. A pinned post on her page shows that a year ago she began holding one-on-one dance lessons, both in person and virtually.
She was also a rollerblader, and held her first rollerblading class earlier this month.
Her Instagram page was full of photos and videos of her dancing and rollerblading, and there’s also a number of selfies.
Her last post, from five days ago, she posted a series of photos of herself standing smiling by some sun loungers in a bikini, revealing that she had dyed her hair red.
The post was captioned: “He said I look good in red , might as well call me sexy red.”