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Abbeville Police are looking for suspects involved in a shooting that left a Kaplan man dead.
Just after 2 a.m. on April 17, the Abbeville Police Department responded to a complaint of shots fired in the area of Graceland Avenue and Hawthorne Street.
Upon the officers’ arrival, they were unable to locate any incident.
The officers continued to search the area and located a subject laying in the street on the 200 block of East Vermilion Street. The victim, later identified as Douglas Bourque, 38, of Kaplan, suffered from several gunshot wounds.

On Monday, the Vermilion Parish School Board held a committee meeting, discussing several changes that may come to schools in the parish.
The highlight of the meeting focused on considering approval for proceeding with opening a French Immersion kindergarten class in Vermilion Parish, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year.
Ellen Arceneaux prepared a detailed presentation on the program after doing much research and visiting schools that have the program already.

Metal thieves are putting you in danger and costing you money by stealing catch basin grates and manhole covers.
More than 50 have gone missing in Vermilion Parish in the last month. When one disappears it leaves a big opening for a deep hole. The Vermilion Parish Police Jury has to spend big bucks to replace them.
The police jury is asking the community and salvage yards to help stop these costly and dangerous thefts.
For the last month, bold thieves are riding around the parish and taking catch basin grates.
On Thursday one was stolen in Abbeville.