Baytown, Louisiana February 12th 2008

Baytown, Louisiana
February 12th 2008 5:30am

Susanna Branch (28)


8 a.m. Tuesday, Louisiana State Police pulled over a Nissan truck for a moving violation, and the trooper noticed blood on the driver's hands (and clothes)

Louisiana officials said Allen St. Brice told them he cut himself while changing a tire, but tires showed no evidence of being changed. So the trooper called for assistance and when they arrived, St. Brice fled. Police said he threw a gun out of the window along I-10

Troopers laid down a spike strip and stopped the truck, and St. Brice was taken into custody

Allen St. Brice, 31, was arrested in St. Martin Parish on Tuesday, accused of "running from Louisiana state police," Harris County Sgt. Larry Davis said

St. Brice was booked into the Iberville Parish Jail and later released to detectives from Harris County

Deputies said St. Brice broke into the home of 28-year-old Susanna Branch and opened fire around 5:30 am

Branch died at the scene, and her boyfriend died at the hospital

Branch’s two sons, aged 7 and 8, slept through the whole thing

Branch's sons, awakened by the gunfire, were the first to discover the bloody scene. They alerted their grandmother, who called 911, Davis said