What started as a typical Easter Sunday ended in a fight between a family and their friend.

“When I'm waking up he's stirring his pot, I see my dress and I grab it and it's cut in half," says Diana Viotor.

The victim, Diana Viotor, went to Norvin Garnett's home on Hickery St. in Mamou to pick up a borrowed dress, which led to a heated confrontation.

"She kept trying to fight with my wife, pulling her hair and everything." Garnett said.

Viotor replied, "so she go and grab the gun and she hit me in the forehead with it. When I saw the gun, I hit her as hard as I could.”

Garnett admits he had a gun sitting on the table outside, but says it was never touched during the fight.

"The only time I touched her was to break up the fight, the fight was accelerating and I didn't want anybody to get hurt," he said.

Viotor has a different side to tell…she says he used the gun to hit her.

"That's when he's swinging the gun...bam in my eye," Viotor said.

After the fight in Garnett's front yard, Viotor says she walked away and called the police, but was followed by three of Garnett’s family members.

"I was walking and here come four of them around the corner," Viotor said.

Garnett responded, "the kids had seen that the girl had jumped on their mama, so the kids went and they jumped on her.”

Garnett and his wife are now facing aggravated battery charges, while the three other family members involved are being charged with simple battery.

Garnett has since resigned from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff's office.


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