By Jessie Halladay
jhalladay@courier-journal.com
Louisville Metro Police are looking for a 25-year-old man for questioning after his wife was found dead in a hotel room off Hurstbourne Parkway on Monday morning.
David O’Donnell, who was last seen near the 6900 block of Bardstown Road, is wanted on outstanding warrants of fourth-degree assault and wanton endangerment, said Dwight Mitchell, a police spokesman. He has not been charged in connection to his wife’s death and had been under court orders not to have contact with her.
April O’Donnell, 21, was found dead just after 7 a.m. after police were called to the InTown Suites hotel, at 4604 Wattbourne Lane, after a relative called police and asked them to check on her welfare. When police gained access to the second-floor hotel room, they found her dead inside, Mitchell said.
The cause of her death will be officially determined by an autopsy Tuesday morning, said Sam Weakley, a deputy Jefferson County coroner. He would not give details about her injuries.
Obvious signs of foul play in the room make her death appear to be a homicide, Mitchell said.
In June, April O’Donnell asked a Jefferson county judge to issue an emergency protective order against her husband after David O’Donnell allegedly hit her in the face and choked her during an argument.
According to the protective order, issued on June 24, April O’Donnell confronted her husband of two years about his alcohol and drug use. She said that he struck her in the face and then grabbed her throat with both hands. He then threw her out the room where they were staying at a hotel on Bardstown Road.
April O’Donnell said her mother came to get her and took her to the hospital, where police were called and filed a report.
The order says the couple has a 2-year-old son who is in the custody of David O’Donnell’s parents.
An emergency protective order was issued that expired on July 21. At that point, a judge issued another protective order banning David O’Donnell from having contact with his wife. He also was ordered to attend at least four Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week and get a sponsor. That order was valid until July 2013.
Prior to the couple’s marriage in September 2007, another emergency protective order for April was issued against David O’Donnell.
According to that order, O’Donnell shoved his then-girlfriend while she was four months pregnant. An order was issued but expired that October.
Reporter Jessie Halladay can be reached at (502) 582-4081.
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