By Lloyd Nelson
Staff Writer
Published: Monday, June 7, 2010 at 11:24 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 7, 2010 at 12:16 p.m.
CORRECTED
THIBODAUX — A south Lafourche man was killed during a Friday morning fight with his girlfriend, police said.
Ian Matherne, 35, of Larose, died from a “fatal wound” inflicted by the unnamed girlfriend, said Lesley Hill Peters, spokeswoman for the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's
Office.
Matherne had been stabbed once in the shoulder with a kitchen knife, Peters said.
No charges have been filed and scant details have been released by authorities “due to the nature of the crime,” Peters said.
Authorities, summoned to the house on West 13th Street in Larose, said they arrived about 1 a.m. to find the woman performing CPR on an unresponsive Matherne. He was pronounced dead at the
scene.
The investigation is ongoing, Peters said, and it will be up to the District Attorney's Office whether charges will be filed.
Matherne was convicted twice of second-degree battery, in 1995 and 2008. Particulars of those cases weren't available.
An autopsy was scheduled for today.
CORRECTION: This article has been edited to reflect the following correction. Police identified the unnamed woman as Matherne's girlfriend, not his live-in girlfriend.
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