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Senior Police Officer

Trevor Abney

New Orleans Police Department — New Orleans, LA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch April 9, 2023

Age 34

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

The Vigil Panel 181 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 127

Incident

Senior Police Officer Trevor Abney succumbed to complications from a gunshot wound sustained on October 30th, 2020.

He and his partner were stopped at the intersection of St. Philip Street and Royal Street when a passenger in a passing pedicab opened fire on them without provocation. Officer Abney was struck in the left side of his face, and his partner suffered cuts to his arm from the shattered windshield.

The subject was apprehended after a foot chase through the French Quarter. He was charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer following the initial shooting.

Officer Abney was transported to the University Medical Center New Orleans where life-saving measures were performed. Doctors were unable to remove the bullet, which remained lodged in his brain and blinded him in the left eye. He succumbed to complications of the wound on April 9th, 2023.

Officer Abney was a United States Army Iraq War veteran and had served with the New Orleans Police Department for seven years.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife and parents.

In Our Keeping

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Last updated: August 2, 2026

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Senior Police Officer Abney gave the New Orleans Police Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the New Orleans community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department New Orleans Police Department

Type Police Department

Location New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Platform Identity nopd.orleans.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 9, 2023

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

Age 34

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun; .40 caliber

Military Service

Trevor Abney served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Senior Police Officer Trevor Abney is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In LA, 364 of 595 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.2% of this state's fallen. That is 61.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At New Orleans Police Department, 86 of 128 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 67.2% of this agency's fallen.

New Orleans Police Department

of 128 officers

67.2% Felonious

LA — Statewide

364

of 595 officers

61.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious