15-Year-Old Girl Found Beaten To Death In Home

LAPLACE, La. (AP) — A 15-year-old LaPlace girl was found bludgeoned to death in her bedroom after spending the night home alone.

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office said the girl's mother told deputies that she found her daughter in her bedroom Sunday, lifeless and covered with blood she returned from work .

Capt. Dan Clement said in a news release that Detectives who arrived at 6:30 a.m., said evidence at the scene indicated the girl had sustained blunt force trauma to the head.

Authorities suspect she was killed sometime after 1 a.m. on Sunday.

The girl's name has not been released. Clement says she attended school at Riverside Academy in Reserve.