Browning woman sentenced to 8 years for fatal stabbing

Danielle Marie Marceau, also known as Danielle Marie Comesatnight, 35, of Browning, was sentenced last week to 97 months in federal prison for fatally stabbing another individual during an argument.

Marceau also was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $11, 735.90 in restitution by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Morris.

In June 2020, Blackfeet Law Enforcement Services responded to Marceau’s residence in Browning to conduct a welfare check on the victim, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Officers found the victim’s body in the residence and determined the last time the victim had been seen alive was late on May 30, 2020, with Marceau. Both were intoxicated and had been arguing. Marceau admitted to killing the victim and that she had used a knife to stab the victim during an argument. In the days following the incident, Marceau told multiple family members they had been in a fight and that she stabbed the victim.

The defendant previously pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

According to a July 1, 2020 Great Falls Tribune article, the victim was Waylong Lee Mittens.

“Mittens, who used a wheelchair due to a leg amputation, was discovered on the floor of a laundry area with his wheelchair pushed across the room,” the Great Falls Tribune reported. “A sheet was draped over his body, and there was evidence that someone had tried to clean up the scene.”

A court affidavit stated Marceau was in a relationship with Mittens and the two lived together, the Tribune said.