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An Abbeville man is dead, and another person is injured after a suspect fired multiple shots into a vehicle that also had a toddler inside.
On Friday, April 18, at approximately 10:08 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department received several calls of shots fired around the 700 block of South Guegnon Street in Abbeville. Minutes later, the department received another call that someone had crashed into a utility pole in Landry’s Laundromat parking lot on Charity Street. Another call then came in advising of a shooting victim on Prairie Avenue.

Abbeville will host what could be the largest Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday (April 19) at the Herbert Williams Baseball Field. There will be 1,000 eggs hidden to highlight the first-ever Easter Egg Hunt Kids Festival.
The festival is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the baseball field located at 1600 Martin Luther King Drive in Abbeville.
Ravin St. Julien is the director of the nonprofit La. Dynasty Inc. is putting on the event.

According to Sheriff Eddie Langlinais, on April 9 at around noon, the Vermilion Municipal and Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant at a business on Grosse Isle Road in Abbeville.
An investigation involving Nathan Zenon Jr., 41, led agents to the business. Occupants of the property were brought into a common area where Miranda Rights were read to and waived by all. Nathan Zenon Jr. and Kavian Zenon, 38, were arrested for narcotics-related offenses as a result of the investigation.