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Four and a half year sentence for woman convicted of manslaughter in death on Sunchild First Nation

Mar 3, 2021 | 2:18 PM

A four and a half year jail sentence has been handed to a woman from the Sunchild First Nation who admitted to a fatal stabbing over two years ago.

Chelsey Lagrelle, 25, was sentenced in a Red Deer courtroom on Tuesday after previously pleading guilty to manslaughter for the death of 25-year-old Samantha Sharpe.

Lagrelle was also given a lifetime firearms prohibition. She was initially charged with both manslaughter and assault with a weapon in the Dec. 12, 2018 incident that also saw her brother suffer injuries.

RCMP had responded to a call about a person in distress on the Sunchild First Nation and arrived along with EMS to find a female victim deceased.

Mounties say the suspect was arrested at a different location without incident, and determined the victims and accused were known to each other.

Previously, court heard that Lagrelle, her then 24-year-old brother Ashton Lagrelle, and Sharpe, who was in a relationship with Ashton at the time, got together for some late night heavy drinking the night of Dec. 11, 2018.

The trio eventually got into an argument, with Chelsey Lagrelle swinging a knife at her brother, cutting him in the face, then stabbing Sharpe twice, striking her in the heart and lungs.

Ten and a half months of pre-trial custody will be deducted from Lagrelle’s four and a half year sentence.