Etowah County investigators charged an Altoona man Saturday with the murder of his girlfriend on Christmas Eve, according to Sheriff Jonathon Horton.
Ace Antonio Pierre Belcher, 32, was charged with murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Traci Melvin Wilemon, 50. Belcher had been jailed since early Friday morning.
According to Horton, Belcher called 911 at 7:58 p.m. Thursday reporting he d found Wilemon unresponsive on the floor of their residence on 10th Street in Altoona.
Altoona police arrived first and found Wilemon dead at the scene. Chief Eric Doran called the sheriff s office to investigate, Horton said in a press release, because of unusual circumstances found at the scene.