Vermilion Parish Sheriff thanks agencies for their help in finding two suspects

For about four hours on Monday, the city of Abbeville looked like it was under attack because of the number of law enforcement agents in the city.
The agents on Abbeville streets were searching for two men, who were believed to have shot and killed Allen Bares Jr., a Vermilion Parish Sheriff deputy.
Bares was shot around 4 p.m. on South Hospital Drive, south of Abbeville.
Within an hour of the reported killing, Abbeville was overtaken with law enforcement from the national level to the local level.
They were here for one reason - to find the people responsible for killing one of their own.
The FBI, the U.S. Marshals Office, the Lafayette Sheriff’s Office, the Lafayette Police Department, the State Police, along with all law enforcement agents from the parish offered help to the Sheriff’s Office.
Minutes after Bares’ stolen truck was found on Miles Street off of Martin Luther King Drive in Abbeville, many of those visiting agents rushed to the scene.
Within 10 minutes of arrival, 10 blocks along Martin Luther King Drive were blocked by law enforcement vehicles. Abbeville police cars, Sheriff vehicles, coupled with the Abbeville Marshal’s Office had the roads blocked, and the neighbors in their homes as police searched for two men. The State Police had a search helicopter flying over where a SWAT unit was looking on the ground.
The State Police help searched in wooded areas on Martin Luther Drive and streets off of Martin Luther King Drive. On Tuesday, after two suspects had been found and arrested, Sheriff Mike Couvillon thanked the agencies for their help.
Many of them attended the press conference held by Couvillon and the State Police.
“I want to thank the many different local, state and federal agencies for the overwhelming response in assisting with the investigation,” said Couvillon. “It is the united effort that led to a swift apprehension. It is our goal to see justice at its maximum level.”