Carla Carroll, 65, was found dead inside her home in the 1700 block of Thicket Court in Tracy, California, on the evening of July 21, 2023. Officers arrived about 9:30 p.m.; she was pronounced dead at the scene and described by authorities as the obvious victim of a homicide.

Tracy Police Department detectives from the General Investigations Unit identified her son, 26-year-old Spencer Carroll, as the primary suspect. Spencer Carroll had been arrested in Stockton the same evening on an unrelated disturbance; he was in custody when investigators named him a suspect and was later booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on one count of homicide.

Authorities said the investigation remained ongoing and that they were seeking to understand a motive. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Brian Azevedo at [email protected] or (209) 831-6534. Did anyone in Tracy know the Carroll family or see anything on the night of July 21, 2023?