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WAGGAMAN, La. (WGNO) — Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies are investigating a Waggaman area homicide that happened Tuesday, Sept. 16.

Deputies were alerted around 10 p.m. of a crash in the 6000 block of Live Oak Boulevard. When they arrived, an unresponsive man was found lying in a ditch near a vehicle suffering from several stab wounds, said JPSO deputies.

He was pronounced dead on the scene.

Also on the scene was the victim's wife, 65-year-old Carmella Motley where she revealed during the investigation that there was an alleged fight between the two inside the vehicle.

An warrant was issued for Motley on a allegations of second-degree murder.

No further details are available at this time. The Jefferson Paris

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