Livingston County Louisiana Archives News.....Murder-Suicide Shocks Community March 18, 2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Eddie Bennett http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006636 April 20, 2010, 5:22 pm The Livingston Parish News - 18 Mar 2010 March 18, 2010 Murder-Suicide Shocks Community FRENCH SETTLEMENT – A man shot his estranged wife and 5-year old son before turning the gun on himself in their home. The woman was shot with a 12 gauge shot gun. Next the son was shot with a 38-caliber pistol, which the father turned on himself. His grandmother who had called police to alert them that Joseph Shaffett had just called and told her that he shot his wife and son and intended to shoot himself had picked up a nine-year-old boy from school before he could return home. The couple though involved in a divorce had no known history of violence and neighbors had reported seeing the father in the yard playing with his sons recently. The sheriff’s office had no record of domestic disturbance calls to the residence. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/livingston/newspapers/murdersu3nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb