In late summer 2019 the Abbeville community lost a 22-year-old man to gun violence. Jacolby Blaine Lee was killed on Wednesday, August 21, 2019; the Abbeville Police Department opened a homicide investigation and asked residents for help identifying those responsible. Authorities did not release names of suspects or persons of interest in the immediate aftermath.

Lee’s funeral service was held Saturday, August 31, 2019, at Mt. Triumph Baptist Church, and he was buried in St. Paul Cemetery in Abbeville. His family included his mother, Cynthia Lee Delasbour, his late father Joseph Allen, Sr., and two young children, a daughter and a son. No information about arrests, charges, or identified suspects has been provided.

If anyone in Abbeville that night has information about what happened to Jacolby Blaine Lee, please come forward to the Abbeville Police Department.