Grand Jury indicts man in killing of South Cobb social media influencer

A Cobb grand jury indicted 21-year-old Eugene Tobi Louis Jacques for murder in the Aug. 23 death of South Cobb resident Beauty Couch, a social media influencer, who was found dead near her burned-out vehicle.

Jacques is charged with murder, aggravated assault, arson, concealing the death of another and tampering with evidence in Couch’s death.

He was booked into the Cobb jail on Sept. 15 after he fled the state.

Days after Couch’s body was discovered, Jacques was apprehended by sheriff’s deputies in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. He was later extradited to Cobb.

Austell Police found Couch’s body at the edge of a wooded area near Joe Jerkins Boulevard and Landers Street on Aug. 23.

First responders initially thought they were responding to a report of a brush fire and arrived to find that a vehicle was also fully engulfed in flames at the scene. The vehicle was owned by one of Couch’s parents, and when police contacted them, they learned Couch, who usually drove the vehicle, had been missing since the previous morning.

According to his arrest warrant, Jacques is accused of killing Couch sometime on either Aug. 22 or Aug. 23. He is accused of murdering Couch by repeatedly stabbing her. He is also accused of setting the vehicle Couch drove on fire.

Couch was an Instagram influencer who had over 150,000 followers on the platform. She was known for her dancing roller skating videos.