By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 8 for a man charged with homicide in connection with the heroin overdose death of a woman in his Town of East Troy home.
Carl A. Evrard, 36, of East Troy, was charged April 16 with first-degree reckless homicide in connection with the Feb. 17 death of Yugoslavia-born Alma Hadzibulic, 23, of East Troy.
According to Hadzibulic’s obituary online, she moved to the United States to live with her father, Latif Hadzibulic, when she was 4 years old, and she died Feb. 17 in her East Troy home.
According to the criminal complaint, Evrard spoke to his wife, Jocelyn Evrard, on Feb. 17 from the Walworth County Jail where Jocelyn Evrard was incarcerated. Carl Evrard told his wife Hadzibulic was unconscious and he couldn’t wake her, according to the complaint. On the recorded phone call, a deputy heard Jocelyn Evrard tell her husband to call to ambulance, and Carl Evrard responded, “I don’t want to do that either.”
A deputy responded to the Evrards’ Spleas Skoney Road home and found Hadzibulic with a weak pulse, her eyes rolled back and not breathing, according to the complaint. Paramedics responded but Hadzibulic did not survive, according to the complaint.
A small bottle of suspected heroin was found in a storage drawer under Carl Evrard’s bed, and Evrard told police the next day that he had provided Hadzibulic with heroin and watched her use it the morning of Feb. 17 before he went to sleep. Evrard said when he woke up, Hadzibulic was lying on a bed and “sleep talking,” according to the complaint. Evrard said he attended a court appearance for his wife that morning and, when he returned home, Hadzibulic was still “being weird,” and a deputy arrived at his home at about that time.
Evrard told a detective he felt responsible for Hadzibulic’s death, according to the complaint.
Waukesha County Medical Examiner Lynda Biedrzycki told the detective she believes, based on autopsy reports, Hadzibulic’s death was the result of heroin intoxication, according to the complaint.
