Husband with restraining order arrested after woman found dead in first Davis homicide of ’24
A Davis man was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife after she was found dead in her home Thursday, according to the Davis Police Department.
Officers were called around 4:40 p.m. to a residence on the 900 block of J Street after a friend had reported a woman missing earlier in the afternoon, the department said in a news release. Inside the home, officers found the body of a 29-year-old woman.
Police said they found the woman’s spouse, Henry Stanley, 37, near the residence after the woman was declared dead. Officers had learned that Stanley “had an active criminal restraining order prohibiting contact with the deceased that stemmed from his arrest for domestic violence-related charges” two days before his wife’s death, police said.
On Tuesday, Stanley had been arrested in connection with the restraining order, the Police Department said, and had been released on bail.
While an investigation into the death was ongoing, police said, officers arrested Stanley in connection with the homicide. He was booked into Yolo County Jail and faces at least one charge in connection with the suspected homicide.
“The circumstances surrounding the incident are awaiting additional information from the Yolo County Coroner’s Office regarding the cause and manner of death,” the Police Department said. The woman has not been identified.
No charges appeared in connection with Stanley in Yolo Superior Court as of Friday morning.
According to crime statistics provided by the Police Department, the woman’s death marks the city’s first homicide of 2024. It’s also the first slaying since a series of deadly stabbings left two men dead and seriously injured a woman.
Carlos Reales Dominguez, 22, is charged with murder and attempted murder with special circumstances in the three attacks in late April and early May. David Breaux, 50, and Najm, 20, were killed in separate Davis city parks days apart. Their deaths were followed by the brutal attack on 64-year-old Kimberlee Guillory as she slept in her tent in a homeless encampment. She survived the stabbing.
Dominguez is expected to be tried as early as April 2025 in proceedings that could take six weeks.
