On May 13, 2024, at approximately 4:00 pm hour, deputies of the Evangeline Parish sheriff’s office responded to the 900 block of Chataignier Road, just outside the city limits of Ville Platte, La. Upon their arrival, deputies learned that a male subject was walking back to his mother's home, from a local store, and in the 900 block of Chataignier Road, a dark colored SUV with tinted windows, drove by and three shots were fired at him from the moving vehicle

The victim, Lee Larnette, is currently in stable condition at an area hospital and the assailant(s) are unknown at this time.  He is suffering from one gunshot to the upper back and one to the hip.

If anyone in the public that has pertinent information pursuant to the determining who did this crime, you are urged to contact the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division.  The phone number is 337-363-2161

As always, Sheriff Charles R. Guillory and the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office is seeking information on criminal activity and urges the public to contact their Investigation Department via phone at 337-363-2161 or through the agency’s website at www.evangelineparishsheriff.org.  Any person/s reporting information will remain anonymous. All suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty.