Investigation continues in Port Lavaca death
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PORT LAVACA - No new developments have surfaced in the assault death of a Port Lavaca man, Police Chief John Stewart said.
Carrol Fondren, 68, was found dead in his home on Trinity Street early Thursday morning after a neighbor requested police check on him.
Police have not released how he died.
Stewart said investigators went to Austin on Friday morning to retrieve autopsy results, but he hasn't received any information from them.
Authorities continue to talk to suspects, but no arrests have been made, Stewart said. He said they do not have a motive.
"We still have people to talk to," he said. "It's progressing slowly at this time."
He added that the Department of Public Safety Crime Scene Unit spent 19 hours collecting evidence, which is still being processed.
"Until that gets done, or until something else develops, we're just hanging in there," he said.
In May, a man was killed at a Port Lavaca apartment on Holiday Lane, which is on the north side of town.
Fondren lived on the south side.
The man who killed Joseph Martinez earlier this year was eventually cleared of wrongdoing, as a grand jury found that his actions were in self-defense, Stewart said.
Port Lavaca has not had any murders or non-negligent manslaughters since 2004, when it had three, according to statistics from the FBI's uniform crime report.
"It's unfortunate, but those things happen," Stewart said about homicides in Port Lavaca.
He said violent crime is sometimes inevitable but that authorities are working to bring justice to this latest instance.
"We'll find out," he said.
"Hopefully, it gets all put together and prosecuted."
