UPDATE: Lafayette Police have identified the victim as Kiswanna Patterson Latham, 30, of California.
They say that Matthews is from Compton, California.
ORIGINAL STORY: A woman is dead and and her roommate is in jail after a Sunday night shooting, Lafayette Police say.
Officers were called to the 2400 block of West Pinhook just before 10 p.m. on Sunday, a spokesperson said.
They found an unresponsive woman who had been shot. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Investigators learned that she had been in a dispute with her roommate, Rickey Matthews, 52, prior to the shooting. They arrested Matthews and booked him with second-degree murder. Records show he remains in LPCC today with no bond yet set for his release.
