By Curtis Galbraith

Court

Three-year sentence given in High Prairie manslaughter case

Nov 23, 2023 | 6:00 AM

Alberta Justice says a Red Earth Creek woman charged after the 2021 death of a man at the Gift Lake Metis Settlement has been handed a jail sentence of just over three years.

Tara Rita Louise Auger was given a total of 1117 days at sentencing November 16 and 17 in High Prairie court.

She had originally been charged with second-degree murder after the May 19, 2021, death of 48-year-old Russell Lawrence Lamouche, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter on May 8, 2023.

High Prairie RCMP said at the time that they were called to a disturbance at a Gift Lake home being caused by someone they described as “an intoxicated female.”

While en route, they got another report of a stabbing at the same residence.

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RCMP provided first aid until paramedics arrived, but Lamouche died at the scene.

The same woman was arrested a short time later at a nearby home.