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On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at approximately 4:28 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department responded to a call at 501 Veterans Memorial Drive (Popeye’s) for a complaint of customers fighting.
When officers arrived, they found Xavion Broussard and Anayla Williams in a verbal altercation. The manager requested that they all be removed, and both parties went their separate ways.

On Saturday, June 20, at 12:27 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department received a call from an Abbeville General Emergency Room nurse who advised that a person had just come in with a gunshot wound.
The victim, Kobe Vital, Black Male, advised that as he was passing in front of a house on N Lamar Street in Abbeville, a young Black Male subject shot at him and the passengers in his vehicle, striking the vehicle and hitting the victim in the neck.

Despite knowing that the Vermilion Parish School Board may have to spend $2.1 million on teacher salaries next year because of the governor’s unfunded mandate, and considering a possible rise in health insurance premiums after July, plus, the school district is expected to finish this school year in a deficit, the School Board unanimously voted 5-0 to grant all full-time school employees a 13th check (an extra end of the month check).