Mother kidnapped from Boston bar is found dead in suspect’s car

The body of a 23-year-old mother who was kidnapped from a Boston bar five days ago has been found in the trunk of the suspect’s car after he was captured in Delaware. 

Louis D. Coleman III, 32, was arrested on Interstate 95 in Delaware on Thursday following a multi-state manhunt after police named him as a suspect in the kidnapping of Jassy Correia. 

Police surrounded Coleman’s red Buick Verano sedan on the side of the highway following a short pursuit at about 2pm.  

Correia’s family told multiple media outlets that police had discovered the young mother’s body in the trunk of Coleman’s car. 

Louis D. Coleman III, 32, (right in his mugshot) was arrested on Interstate 95 in Delaware on Thursday following a multi-state manhunt after police named him as a suspect in the kidnapping of 23-year-old Jassy Correia 

Police have not yet confirmed the identity of the body or the cause of death.

‘She was a mother, she was brave, she was strong,’ Correia’s cousin Katia Depina told the Boston Globe. ‘She did not deserve this. She went out to celebrate her birthday and never returned home.

‘We want justice for her death.’ 

Correia, who is the mother of a two-year-old girl, was last seen on surveillance video leaving a Boston nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning and getting into a red car with a man.

Police later publicly identified the man in the surveillance as Coleman.  

Correia’s family told multiple media outlets that police had discovered the young mother’s body in the trunk of Coleman’s car (pictured above) after he was arrested on Interstate 95 in Delaware on Thursday following a multi-state manhunt

Police released surveillance video showing Correia leaving the nightclub with a man. They later publicly identified the man (seen left and right) in the surveillance as Coleman 

Authorities searched the area near Coleman’s home in Providence, Rhode Island on Thursday just hours before his capture. 

They scoured the dumpster area at the apartment complex where Coleman, who worked as a systems engineer for Rayethon, lived.

Surveillance video had captured Coleman carrying a woman into his building and later leaving carrying two suitcases. 

Correia was not found inside the building and was never seen leaving it. 

Her family became worried when her brother and father tried to contact her for her birthday on Tuesday and were unable to reach her. 

They filed a missing person’s report on Wednesday.  

Authorities searched the area near Coleman’s apartment complex (pictured above) in Providence, Rhode Island on Thursday just hours before his capture. Surveillance video had captured Coleman carrying a woman into his building and later leaving carrying two suitcases

Her family set up a GoFundMe page to help raise her two-year-old daughter and it raised more than $45,000 in less than 24 hours

Her family became worried when her father tried to contact her for her birthday on Tuesday and was unable to reach her. They filed a missing person’s report on Wednesday

Her father, Joaquin Correia, had earlier told WBTS-TV: ‘If I don’t see my daughter, I don’t know how I’m going to live. 

‘I feel bad. She told me, ‘Daddy, I’m going to go out’.’ 

Following the discovery of Correia’s body on Thursday, her friend Joao DePina told the Globe: ‘Women should have a right to go to any nightclub, and wear whatever they want to and not worry about being kidnapped and murdered at the end of the damn night.

‘This is not what any family should ever have to go through.’ 

Her family set up a GoFundMe page to help with raising her two-year-old daughter and it raised more than $45,000 in less than 24 hours.