Body found in Girard Park in Lafayette is identified

The mysterious death of a 21-year-old woman whose body was pulled out of a drainage ditch in Girard Park Sunday morning has left her friends and the police wondering how it happened.
Detectives with the Lafayette Police Department identified and interviewed the two male subjects that located the victim’s phone. The subjects were able to provide investigators with specific information regarding the phone’s location.
The body of 21- year-old Alexandria Shelton was found early Sunday in a drainage ditch in Girard Park. She was a student at Grambling State.
Cpl. Paul Mouton of the Lafayette Police Department said detectives have ruled out foul play.
The victim was supposed to meet with her friends at Stewart Street on Saturday night. The friends last heard from her at 8:30 p.m.
When she did not show, they grew concerned. Three hours later, when they dialed her cellphone number, an unknown man answered it instead, saying he found the phone in Girard Park. They met with him and got the phone before the two men left.
The group found the victim’s vehicle and contacted the Lafayette Police and reported that their friends was missing. Once the police got there though, they made a more grim discovery as they found her body in the drainage ditch, where parkgoers usually feed ducks and geese. According to Cpl. Paul Mouton, the cause of the woman’s death remains unclear, although there were reportedly no wounds inflicted. The autopsy began on Monday.
The men who recovered her phone were not listed as suspects and there was no description of them provided because it was too dark. The victim was not a UL Lafayette student.