Baker woman booked in stabbing death of her brother

Tomeka Lathers

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested a Baker-area woman early Christmas Day in the stabbing death of her brother, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

Deputies were called at 12:18 a.m. Tuesday to a duplex at 300-B McHugh Road where they discovered Dominque Lathers, 22, had been stabbed in the neck, Casey Rayborn Hicks said in a news release.

Lathers was transported to a hospital and later pronounced dead as a result of his injuries, Hicks said.

His sister Tomeka Lathers, 18, had fled from the house, but deputies located her several houses down, Hicks said.

Tomeka Lathers told investigators she and her brother had been arguing when he choked her. She then went to the kitchen, got a knife, returned and stabbed him before fleeing, Hicks said.

Tomeka Lathers, 18, was booked into Parish Prison on a count of manslaughter, Hicks said.

The brother and sister lived at the duplex together, Hicks said.

Comments

1) Comment by Thurston_Howell_III - 04/25/2013

SMH and the not so subtle racist comments.

2) Comment by billynurse - 12/26/2012

Knife-control laws are overdue!!!

3) Comment by billynurse - 12/26/2012

Twinkie, "these people" should mean anyone who chooses to be part of a low-life culture.

4) Comment by Attila - 12/26/2012

Twinkie: Widdy was simply, albeit in strong terms, telling it the way it is. It is refreshing that someone would just come out and say to hell with policitcal correctness. All one has to do is check the police report in the daily papers, watch the national and local news, or just take a good look around and they will see just exactly what Widdy meant by his choice of words.

5) Comment by Bighug - 12/26/2012

Tomeka is obviously lacking in proper training. Someone should have taught her the correct statement is "He was choking me, and just before I passed out I managed to barely reach the knife which was lying nearby. I was aiming at his hands to get them off my throat and accidentally cut his throat."

6) Comment by Poquita - 12/25/2012

She obviously had too easy access to the kitchen knife. What we need is for our government to find a way to keep us from harming each other with these readily available objects of destruction. For as long as civilizations have existed, knives have been used to kill untold numbers of people. These things ought to be banned or least controlled so these senseless killing will stop. Maybe we should be required to put locks on the kitchen drawers. I, for one, plan to turn in all my kitchen knives so at least some will be off of the street. Think about how easily children can get to them. You don't even need to register your knives and there's no limit to how many you can buy. I'm sad to say that I even own one of those really large aggressive looking knives. Stop the madness and please support the movement to ban these awful things.

7) Comment by watchdogg - 12/25/2012

I guess the government is getting ready to take all our knifes.....

8) Comment by Shygirl444 - 12/25/2012

Please stop bashing folks until you have all of the facts. If the shoe was on the other foot, would you want anyone making those remarks toward you or a member of your family?

9) Comment by CountryBoysCanSurvive - 12/25/2012

I guess ole' Dominque took the last pork chop

10) Comment by ladyanderson - 12/25/2012

@Widdy, in this case I hope they don't keep her in jail long. I truly believe this was self defense. I don't know these people but the name Dominque Lathers sound familar so I did a goggle search. He has a rap sheet a mile long. He should not even been out of jail. This poor child feared for her life and she did the tax payers and law abiding people a huge favor taking him off the streets. I just hope she gets the help she is going to need.

11) Comment by Widdy - 12/25/2012

Ah yes, must have been arguing over who the new tennis shoes was for. Or maybe one stepped on the other ones new shoes, there have been shooting in north Baton Rouge over that in the past. Must be from a very nice family, he was choking her and she stabbed him! Wonder where the mammy and pappys were. 10 to 1 says they have different pappys. I notice so many of these people tend to be very implusive, much like animals are.

12) Comment by twinkie1cat - 12/25/2012

This sounds like a solid case of self defense to me. Widdy, you are a racist and you will not go to heaven if you don't repent. Racists do NOT go to heaven because Jesus Christ cannot live in a heart full of hate like yours. What is a "these people" Widdy. You know to a lot of folks you are a "these people". Probably just another boring conservative. And animals have a purpose in their killing, by the way. Only humans go out and shoot others for fun. The only proper response is to pray for Tomeka and her family.