SHREVEPORT, La. — Shreveport police said a man brutally beat his girlfriend Saturday morning, ending with her death.

It's not the first time the suspect, Jacobi Hughes, 30, has been accused of hurting others.

SPD says Jacobi Hughes has been arrested eight times — six of those arrests for domestic abuse.

Hughes lived with his mother in the 3100 block of DeSoto Street, according to neighbors, who told KTBS on Monday they did not hear anything coming from the house Friday night. But early Saturday morning, police swarmed the property.

Officers say they found Kailisa Franklin, 27, beaten in a back room. She was rushed to the hospital but did not survive.

"There appeared to have been a significant struggle inside the residence. There were items displaced and broken, and it looked like the

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