Prosecutor: Husband indicted on murder charges for Park Layne homicide

CLARK COUNTY — The husband of a woman found shot to death in her Park Layne home in the summer has been indicted on multiple charges, including murder, according to Clark County Prosecutor Dan Driscoll.

Noel Coles, 48, had previously been named a person of interest in the homicide of Jacqueline Coles, 43, who was found dead in her Weinland Street home on Aug. 24.

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Noel was indicted on charges of aggravated murder, murder, felony murder, aggravated burglary, felonious assault and tampering with evidence, Driscoll said.

Jacqueline was shot six times including four times in her torso area and in both her hands, an autopsy report revealed.

Noel was arrested in Indiana just hours after Jacqueline was found dead. Noel was brought back to Clark County and was charged with violating a protection order. He was scheduled for trial on the protection order charge, however the trial was delayed.

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Deputies conducted a welfare check on Jacqueline Aug. 24 at her home on Weinland Street after a co-worker called a non-emergency line saying they “heard some screaming and then the phone dropped.”

“I tried to call her back, but she won’t answer. But I know she has a protection order against her husband,” the co-worker said in the non-emergency call.

Jacqueline filed a restraining order against Noel just days before on Aug. 5. Court records showed that, in a written statement, Jacqueline Coles accused her husband of threatening to kill her “on multiple occasions” in the weeks before the shooting.

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