The 23-year-old mom allegedly kidnapped leaving a Boston nightclub last month was shoved in a suitcase and bound with duct tape when cops found her dead inside the trunk of a car, according to a report published Monday.
Jassy Correia, who was last seen alive early Feb. 24, had “significant bruising and blood about her face,” when a Delaware trooper found her in the trunk of Louis Coleman III’s car last week, according to court papers obtained by The Boston Globe.
She was “bound with gray duct tape and had a white powdery residue over her body, believed to be baking soda,” the affidavit says.
Police also found garden shears and a set of pliers in Coleman’s car.
The young mom appears to have died after being strangled and beaten, according to the court papers.
When he was booked, Coleman, 32, had a large bandage on his face and was asked about his injury, the records say.
Louis Coleman III’s carBoston Police“Coleman responded, in substance, ‘It’s from the girl,’ ” according to the affidavit.
Video footage shows Correia walking with Coleman, outside the nightclub Venu, where she had been celebrating her birthday, and getting into his car.
Security footage from his apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, shows him getting out of his car and coming back carrying a blanket, according to the affidavit.
He can then be seen carrying Correia’s limp body, which was naked from the waist up, into the building, and dragging her to an elevator.
On Feb. 26 he bought three coveralls, duct tape, candles, electrical tape, a mask, surgical gloves and safety goggles from a Wallgreens. He also appeared to have bought a new suitcase with blue pipping.
Coleman is charged with kidnapping resulting in death, a felony that could potentially bring the death penalty.
He appeared in federal court in Delaware Monday and will be transferred to Boston at an undetermined date.
