ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY) -- An Abbeville man will likely spend the rest of his life in jail after a jury convicted him of murder Wednesday.

A Vermilion Parish jury in the 15th Judicial District Court found Carlton Eugene Hills, 57, of Abbeville, guilty of second degree murder and obstruction of justice in the killing of Dalvin Mullins in Abbeville on July 8, 2024.

According to prosecutors, Hills shot Mullins four times with a 9mm pistol in front of multiple witnesses, including a young child, then ran over the victim’s body with his vehicle.

Hills then rolled the victim’s body in a blanket, put the body in his car, drove away from the scene and threw the body off a bridge.

The victim’s body was recovered by detectives from Youngs South Coulee underneath the South Guegnon Road bridge. The bloody murder weapon was found by Abbeville Police detectives at Hills’s Abbeville residence, prosecutors said.

Second degree murder is a felony with a mandatory sentence of life at hard labor, without the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. Obstruction of justice carries a potential sentence of up to 40 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Hills had been arrested in 1983 and convicted of armed robbery and aggravated battery with a dangerous weapon, and was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. His parole for those charges ended in 2008.

District Judge Thomas Frederick ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set a potential
sentencing date of Oct. 30, 2025, pending his receipt of the results of the investigation from Department of Probation and Parole by that date.

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