The sheriff’s office says the unidentified man went into the Dollar General store; took a garbage can filled it with various merchandise without paying.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating a death after a body was found wrapped in a tarp along Highway 51 on Sunday morning.

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's deputies and Town of Independence Police Department are on the scene of a suspected homicide at this hour. TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. — The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office and the Town of Independence Police Department are on the scene of a suspected homicide.

The vehicle, a black Lincoln MKX, belonged to William Abraham, police said. Abraham, 69, of Baton Rouge, was found dead of blunt force trauma, rolled in tarp on the side of La. 51 between Fluker and the village of Tangipahoa, shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has identified the man whose body was found on the side of Highway 51 Sunday morning. TPSO says the victim is William Nicholas Abraham, 69, of Baton Rouge. Preliminary investigation says his manner of death is blunt force trauma and cause of death is a homicide.

A well-known Baton Rouge mental health therapist was found murdered and wrapped in a tarp alongside a roadway in Tangipahoa Parish, investigators said.Detectives say 69-year-old Dr. William Nicholas Abraham of Baton Rouge died in a “violent attack” with blunt force trauma to his head,

Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s deputies are trying to identify a person of interest in the death of a Baton Rouge therapist whose body was found in a tarp along US 51 on Sunday. Detectives have identified the deceased as William Nicholas Abraham.

Deputies with the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office have released the identity of a body found inside a tarp along Highway 51 on Sunday, Sept. 29.