Killer of Lafayette teen to serve sentence in St. Martin Parish?

Seth Fontenot, convicted in Lafayette of manslaughter in the 2013 shooting death of 15-year-old Austin Rivault, will apparently serve his sentence in St. Martin Parish.
Fontenot was booked into the St. Martin Parish Correctional Center on Wednesday, July 8, the day he was sentenced.
Whether he will remain here for the duration of his sentence is a matter for the Louisiana Department of Corrections to disclose, the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office said. DOC did not respond to Teche News’ inquiry.
In a ruling the prosecutors are calling too lenient and even “illegal,”
15th Judicial District Judge Edward Rubin sentenced Fontenot, 21, to five years in jail for the manslaughter conviction of Rivault, suspending all but 13 months.
Assistant District Attorney J.N. Prather Jr. said Fontenot could be out in four months.
The judge could have sentenced Fontenot to up to 40 years in jail for a manslaughter conviction and 10 years each for aggravated battery in the wounding of two other teens Fontenot apparently believed had tried to break into his truck.
Rubin handed down identical sentences for two aggravated battery convictions. They’ll run concurrently with the manslaughter sentence, which means there won’t be additional jail time for those convictions.
Fontenot will serve his time in a low-security prison, not the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, his attorney, Thomas Guilbeau said on Wednesday.
The prosecutor, Prather, said he will file a writ with the Third Circuit Court of Appeal challenging the sentence.
“I’m not real pleased with the decision,” Prather said afterwards. “I think an injustice was done and I think it has to be corrected.”
“It’s not the duty of the court to mete out a sentence for vengeance or retribution,” Rubin said, calling the shooting “an act of negligence.”
Fontenot was convicted in March.
In the wee hours of Feb. 10, 2013, Fontenot grabbed a 9 mm pistol, ran outside his family’s home, and fired three times at a pickup truck he said he believed carried someone who had tried to break into his vehicle. Fontenot testified he fired the shots to scare whoever was in the truck. But Rivault was hit in the back of his head, the driver, 15-year-old Cole Kelley, was shot in the leg, and another passenger, William Bellamy, 15, was struck in the neck.
Fontenot still faces felony charges for drug distribution that, if he’s convicted, could get him a longer sentence than he received for killing Rivault. According to Louisiana law, a conviction of one count of Schedule II drug distribution carries a penalty of two to 30 years.