A third person has been arrested in connection with a Sunday night shooting in Lafayette.
Deputies with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office were notified at 7:00 pm on January 23 of a shooting in the 200 block of Marigny Circle.
According to the sheriff's office, two men were involved in an altercation in which a 36-year-old victim was struck with a firearm by a suspect. That suspect was identified as 19-year-old Wilbert Sampy.
The victim was transported to a local hospital to be treated for his injuries.
Shortly after the altercation, deputies say a second suspect began shooting at Sampy for unknown reasons.
Sampy was injured during the shooting and was transported to a hospital for medical attention.
Sampy was booked into the Lafayette Parish jail on charges of Aggravated Second Degree Battery and Aggravated Assault with a Firearm for his involvement in the initial altercation.
The second suspect, 30-year-old La’stavius Holden, was booked on a charge of Attempted Second-Degree Murder.
A third suspect, identified as 28-year-old Earneisha Utley, was arrested and booked on a charge of Accessory After the Fact to Attempted Second-Degree Murder.
Read more on Holden and Utley's arrest: Two arrested in Marigny Circle shooting incident
The investigation is ongoing, deputies say.
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