D'IBERVILLE -- Petty officer 1st Class Philomena Roberts was found dead in her home on June 1, 2011.
Media reported that Roberts had a gunshot wound to the chest.
(Update: On June 29, D'Iberville police charged Roberts' husband, Troy Eugene Roberts, with murder in her death. He was being held in jail on an unrelated charge -- a felon in possession of a concealed weapon, reported as a switchblade -- since he reported her death, saying that they'd been out drinking, but he'd taken home before leaving again, and found her dead when he returned. See the June 30, 2011, issue of The Sun Herald.)
According to the newspaper, Philomena Roberts was from Arkansas, had a son, and had been in the Navy for 14 years. The petty officer was a logistics specialist with the Seabee Readiness Group in Gulfport.
She had served on the USS Merimack and USS Nimitz. She also had been stationed in England at the Naval Air Facility Mildenhall and in Virginia at the Center for Combat Learning Site and the Naval Special Warfare Group. Roberts was a member of Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, and a survivor of breast cancer.
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