LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – Police have ruled yesterday’s suspicious death of 37-year-old Sheree Patin Williams on Conrad Street was a homicide and have arrested her ex-boyfriend in connection with her murder.

Corporal Paul Mouton said detectives were able to place the victim’s ex-boyfriend, Jonathan Aubrey 33, of Lafayette, at Williams’ home before her body was discovered.

Aubrey was arrested late Monday night for violating a protective order. The autopsy conducted by coroner’s office revealed that Williams’ strangled to death, according to Mouton.

Detectives then returned to the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center and upgraded Aubrey’s charge to first-degree murder.

The case remains under investigation.