24 Year Old Mother Heidi Monroy Found Dead … Three Children Missing in Jefferson Parish, LA, 14 Year Old Jessica Nicolle Monterroso, 4 Year Old Yojan Manuel Monterroso-Flores & 2 Year Old Jafet Abigaitl Monterroso-Monroy … 43 Year Old Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas Wanted for Second Degree Murder (Update: Suspect Arrested in Texas, Children Safe)

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana mom is dead and three children are missing …

43 year old Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas is wanted for second degree murder in the death of  24 year old Heidi Monroy. Police said that Monroy was found unconscious at her home in the 4000 block of Durand Street with a head wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s department is not only looking for Monterroso-Navas, but also three children are missing. Police are saying that Monterroso-Navas fled with his three biological children Sunday morning, including his daughter, 14-year-old Jessica Nicolle Monterroso, and two sons, 4-year-old Yojan Manuel Monterroso-Flores and 2-year-old Jafet Abigaitl Monterroso-Monroy.

Monterroso-Navas is from Honduras and may also go by the name of Wilson Rigoberto Mina. Monterroso-Navas was last seen wearing black pants and a blue shirt, according to a release from State Police. He walks with a limp.

 Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas wanted for murder

Deputies say Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas, 43, faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of Heidi Monroy, 24, who the sheriff’s office originally identified as his wife.

Deputies began looking for Monterroso-Navas after authorities responding to a medical call at 3:35 a.m. Sunday found a woman unconscious in a bathtub. Two of the couple’s children, a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old, had gone to a neighbor’s house to seek help, saying something was wrong with their mother.

Sheriff Newell Normand said Monroy had a head wound and was pronounced dead on the scene.

Normand said Monterroso-Navas fled with his three biological children, including his daughter, 14-year-old Jessica Nicolle Monterroso, and two sons, 4-year-old Yojan Manuel Monterroso-Flores and 2-year-old Jafet Abigaitl Monterroso-Monroy.

Jessica Monterroso

Yojan Manuel Monterroso-Flores

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Ernesto Oroschena, who lives in a neighboring apartment, said the two children were running up and down the stairs of the apartment complex yelling for help in Spanish.

“They were yelling, ‘My mother’s lying down’ and ‘My dad killed my mother,’ ” Oroschena said.

Those two children were identified as Victor Manuel Monterroso-Monroy, 8, and Marlin Jouahny Monterroso-Monroy, 5.

Paul Ross, who also lives in the apartment complex, said the family moved in about two months ago. He said he never witnessed any fighting between the couple.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Monterroso-Navas or his children is asked to call Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111 or else call 911.

UPDATE I: Man arrested in Katy,Texas for murdering girlfriend in Metairie, LA.

Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies stated in a news release that 43-year-old Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas, of Metairie, was arrested in a trailer park in Katy, Texas, late Sunday night.

According to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, a man wanted for second degree murder in the death of his girlfriend in Metairie Sunday, has been arrested in Texas.

JPSO sent out a release early Monday morning indicating that Pedro Alberto Monterosso-Navas, also known as Wilson Rigoberto Mena, who was wanted for second degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, has been arrested in a trailer park in Katy Texas.

All three of his children were with him at the time of his arrest, and are reportedly fine and are now in the custody of Texas authorities.