A teenage boy is arrested in connection with the killing of an elderly woman inside her Morehouse Parish apartment. On Tuesday evening, 73-year-old Ruby Lee Peterson was found stabbed to death inside her apartment in Bastrop. Chief Deputy James Mardis with the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office says the following day, deputies arrested 17-year-old Amir Dowles and charged him with second-degree murder.
“We don’t have a motive, he is not cooperating with the investigation,” Mardis said.
Mardis says deputies quickly zeroed in on Dowles as their suspect.
“Checking cameras, checking evidence to come up with a suspect,” Mardis said.
Mardis says the only connection that investigators have established at this time between Dowles and Peterson is that they lived in the same apartment complex, the Eden Apartments.