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Woman charged in Wellbrooke Road homicide

56-year-old Brenda Porter has been charged with a man's death at a home not too far from Assumption High School.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – Metro Police say they’ve made an arrest in the death of a man found at a home in the Gardiner Lane neighborhood Sunday.

Police responded to a home in the 3000 block of Wellbrooke Road for a welfare check when they discovered a man’s body in the backyard.

Police originally called this a death investigation but later called it homicide.

Brenda Porter, 56, was arrested and charged with murder, domestic violence tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.

She’s currently booked in Metro Corrections without bond and is expected to be arraigned on Jan. 22.

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