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On July 14, at approximately 9:30 p.m., Abbeville Police Officers responded to the Stone Bridge Apartment Complex in reference to a shooting incident.
Upon arrival, officers located a male victim who was soon identified as 18-year-old Jazaylon Levy.
Levy was found suffering from a single gun shot wound and was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced deceased by medical personnel.

(The Center Square) — The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development announced a new Strategic Highway Safety Plan this week following a record increase in fatal crashes in 2021.
Preliminary data shows a total of 971 people died in motor vehicle crashes in Louisiana last year, a 17% increase from the 828 fatalities in 2020. The jump marked the highest year-to-year percentage increase in fatal crashes since Louisiana started tracking the statistic, Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE), received federal approval to expand the Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program to cover the summer months for eligible children in K-12 schools.
This is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer P-EBT program to provide food benefits for the summer months to eligible children.