On the evening of August 26, 2024, deputies from the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting on Caroline Drive in Port Sulphur and found 40-year-old commercial fisherman Billy Saunier with injuries consistent with gunshots. Plaquemines Parish Emergency Medical Services pronounced Saunier dead at the scene. He was known locally as Billo or Wild bill.

Investigators identified 20-year-old Victor Battle as a suspect based on witness statements and crime-scene information; an arrest warrant was obtained and Battle was taken into custody and booked on a charge of second-degree murder. No murder weapon was ever recovered, and there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting itself.

If anyone in Port Sulphur knew Billy Saunier, his whereabouts the evening of August 26, 2024, or has information about what happened on Caroline Drive, please come forward to the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office.