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Coroner: Harahan woman died from shots fired from husband's gun

According to a statement from the Harahan Police Department, the man at the scene was holding a gun to the head of a woman when they arrived.

HARAHAN, La. — Update: Jefferson Parish Coroner Gerry Cvitanovich said that Lisa Arseneaux, who died Monday from gunshot injuries, was shot by bullets from the suspect's weapon and was not struck by any shots fired by responding officers. 

A dispute between a husband and wife turned deadly in Harahan.

Tuesday, Harahan police detectives went door to door on Haroleans Street, canvassing for information as neighbors gathered outside their homes still in disbelief.

“He just, I guess snapped,” neighbor Dwight Fontenot said. “Something had to make him snap. I don’t know. I really don’t know.”

Sunday evening, just before 6:30 p.m., police arrived at the home in the 100 block of Haroleans to investigate reports of a man attacking a woman while pointing a gun at her head.

According to police, the man and police officers got into a shootout.

Joey Bishop was playing football in his backyard when he heard arguing next door.

“Me and my little brother walked out front to see what was going on and there was a row of cop cars here and that’s when we heard them yelling to put the gun down,” Bishop said. “I guess he initially shot first and they had to do what they had to do.”

Fontenot heard the gunshots.

“I just heard that he shot her in the neck, then the cops open fire on him, then I think he was going down, as he was going down and she was going or whatever, he shot her twice in the back,” Fontenot said.

Police shot the man several times.

The husband and wife were rushed to University Medical Center. The Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office confirmed the woman died from her injuries Sunday night.

She was identified Tuesday by the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office as 62-year-old Lisa Arseneaux. She died of 'multiple gunshot wounds.'

Neighbors say the man and woman were longtime residents in Harahan. They say that the husband was generally a good guy, but he may have struggled with mental illness.

“He just had his ups and downs, ups and downs,” Fontenot said. “I don’t know if it was medicine, or something got to him or what.”

“They had people trying to talk him out of it, but he was just too far gone,” Richard Gauthe who daughter lives on the block said.

No police officers were injured in the shooting.

The man remains in the hospital with what was described as serious injuries.

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