A Vermilion Parish jury found an Abbeville man guilty of a July 2024 murder in which he shot a man and disposed of the body in a coulee.
Carlton Eugene Hills, 57, was found guilty of the second-degree murder of Dalvin Mullins and obstruction of justice, according to a Vermilion Parish district attorney announcement. Hills faces a mandatory life sentence for the murder and up to 40 years for obstruction of justice.
On July 8, 2024, in Abbeville, the jury found Hills shot Mullions four times with a 9mm handgun in front of several witnesses before running over his body with a vehicle.
Hills then rolled Mullin's body in a blanket, placed him in the vehicle, and proceeded to drive away from the scene. Hills later disposed of the body in a coulee south of Abbeville.
Police recovered the body from the Youngs South Coulee underneath the South Guegnon Road bridge. Police later retrieved the murder weapon at Hill's home in Abbeville.
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, according to the announcement.
Sentencing is tentatively set for Oct. 30.