MONTEGUT, La. — A south Louisiana sex offender who hired two men to kill the niece he was accused of raping got a nasty surprise when the alleged shooter instead gunned down his sister and the sister’s neighbor.
Brittany Jane Cormier, 34, and Hope Danos Nettleton, 37, were slain on Jan. 13 in Cormier’s home in Montegut, a small Cajun community of about 2,000 people just over 80 miles southwest of New Orleans. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet said at a news conference Monday that Cormier died protecting the victim her brother was accused of raping last March.
The gunman asked for the rape victim by name, the sheriff said. Cormier told him she was the woman, at which point she was fatally shot.
Source: Fox 13
