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Shanta Matthews

Case from Baton-rouge, LA dated Feb 01, 2018

Victim Details

Shanta Matthews

Female

Black / African American

Baton-rouge

LA

2018-02-01

33

Shanta

Matthews

07/08/2026

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In the late hours of a Thursday night, the sounds of a domestic dispute pierced the air at the Ardendale Oaks Apartments off Lobdell Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Inside one of the apartments, a disagreement between 33-year-old Shanta Renee Matthews and her 31-year-old boyfriend, Zachary Washington, was escalating with tragic consequences. On that night of February 1, 2018, the argument culminated in Washington shooting and killing Matthews before turning the gun on himself. The couple's ...
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