Man Arrested for Manslaughter in Connection with Girlfriend’s Death in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas—A man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of his girlfriend, whose body was discovered at a downtown apartment in April.

On Thursday, April 24, at approximately 5:49 a.m., Austin Police Department (APD) officers and EMS responded to a welfare check at 85 Trinity Street. The caller, Reginald Crosby, reported that his girlfriend, Regina Jones, was unconscious and not breathing. Ms. Jones, 57, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Crosby initially told investigators that he and Jones had argued the night before, and he suggested her death might have been medically related, possibly from choking on food. However, an autopsy revealed a subdural hematoma was the cause of death, contradicting his story.

After his arrest on an unrelated charge in May, Crosby gave a more detailed account, admitting that during their argument, he slapped Jones, causing her head to strike a concrete wall, and then picked her up and threw her down.

On August 19, the final autopsy report confirmed the cause of death as homicide by blunt force trauma. An arrest warrant for second-degree manslaughter was issued for Crosby. He was taken into custody on August 21 by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and booked into the Travis County Jail.