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.

When processing Heinrich's release, the deputy used only local criminal databases to check for any active warrants that would require Heinrich to be held, according to an internal review by EBRSO.

While Heinrich was in the Baton Rouge jail, authorities in Westchester County, New York, issued an order into the National Cri

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