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An East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy is being disciplined for failing to check a national criminal database before releasing a domestic battery suspect on bail.

Less than a week later, the suspect, 28-year-old Steven Heinrich, went on to stab his girlfriend to death and set himself on fire, according to police. Heinrich later died in a hospital.

Heinrich had been arrested the evening of Nov. 4 for allegedly battering Stasy Charles, a 23-year-old LSU student.

When processing Heinrich's release, the deputy used only local criminal databases to check for any active warrants that would require Heinrich to be held, according to an internal review by EBRSO.

While Heinrich was in the Baton Rouge jail, authorities in Westchester County, New York, issued an order into the National Crime Information Center that he should be held and prepped for extradition for violating his parole from a previous conviction.

That conviction was for violating a protective order placed against Heinrich by a previous girlfriend. Friends of that woman also alerted Westchester authorities that Heinrich had been arrested in Baton Rouge, according to Dominique Ramkaran, the girlfriend's mother.

But when the order to hold Heinrich was entered into the NCIC database at 4:39 p.m., his Baton Rouge bail had already been paid nine minutes earlier. So, even if the deputy had checked the national database before releasing Heinrich, the Westchester order to hold him wouldn't have been found.

"Based on the information available, the individual was NOT listed in NCIC at that time in the release process the individual was being searched and verified, so it would not have altered the released decision based on the Commissioner signing the bond for $2,500," a statement from the Sheriff's Office said.

Still, the deputy will go before the disciplinary board for failing to follow the full verification protocol and will be retrained, the Sheriff's Office's statement said.