September 8, 2025

Louisiana brothers arrested in death of coworker on fishing vessel

Nathan Strout

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Shrimp boats tied up in Venice, La. Creative Commons photo by Flickr user Finchlake2000.

Three brothers have been arrested after one of their coworkers was found dead with stab wounds on a commercial fishing vessel in Louisiana.

The homicide occurred on Aug. 28 at 10:30 p.m. local time aboard an unnamed vessel operating west of Venice, La. Authorities were called; upon boarding the vessel, they discovered a body with multiple stab wounds. The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office has not released details on the victim.

Days later, three siblings – Josiah Cottrell, 28, Timothy Cottrell, 25, and David Cottrell, 22, of Broussard, La. – were arrested and booked with second-degree murder, a Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office told local news outlet The Times-Picayune.

The sheriff’s office has not released further details about the homicide, which remains under investigation.

This story originially appeared on SeafoodSource.com and is republished here with permission.

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Nathan Strout

Nathan Strout is a Portland, Maine-based editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, Nathan covered the U.S. military’s space activities and emerging technologies at C4ISRNET and Defense News, where he won awards for his reporting on the U.S. Space Force’s missile warning capabilities. Nathan got his start in journalism writing about several communities in Midcoast Maine for a local daily paper, The Times Record.