An East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy is being disciplined for failing to check a national criminal database before releasing a domestic battery suspect on bail.
Less than a week later, the suspect, 28-year-old Steven Heinrich, went on to stab his girlfriend to death and set himself on fire, according to police. Heinrich later died in a hospital.
Heinrich had been arrested the evening of Nov. 4 for allegedly battering Stasy Charles, a 23-year-old LSU student…