Overview
- Officers responding to a Charlotte apartment Friday found 19-year-old Isabella Stroupe unresponsive and restrained to a bed with tow straps, according to an affidavit.
- The Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide after an autopsy found stab wounds and multiple fractured bones.
- Investigators reported recovering a knife wrapped in cellophane, a baseball bat, a sword, and blood-stained bedding and clothes from the home.
- Thomaz Kenon Hamilton told police he thought she had a heart attack during sex, but the affidavit says she had been tortured for months and was physically unable to consent.
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested Hamilton on Tuesday on first-degree murder and rape charges, and he is being held without bond with a court date set for May 27.