NOPD Shot Last Night Has Been Shot Two Others Times During His 25-Year NOPD Career

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Abbott has been with the NOPD since 1992 and has worked with the Hurstville Association for the last 15 years, according to the association’s website.

Abbott was one of the city’s first community policing officers, a group of cops credited with helping to drastically reduce crime in the city's housing developments.

"We're doing it because we want to do it," Abbott told WWL-TV upon that assignment. "You get a good relationship with the people by themselves one-on-one and it's just like you're in your own neighborhood."

Then, in the summer of 1996, he set up the Cops for Kids program, mentoring children and setting up field trips and games for 2,500 children from the housing developments.

"I come from a low-income environment, and I'm a police officer" he told WWL-TV at the time. "A lot of 'em say if he can do it, I can do it."

He was first shot in 1998 after stopping a suspect in the C.J. Peete public housing development.

He was shot again in 2001 -- that time in the head, chest and stomach -- when he stopped an armed man walking in Treme near Dumaine and North Johnson streets. Just before that shooting, he was driving the lead police van for the Special Olympics torch run. He was on his way to court to testify in a trial when he pulled over to talk to Brandy Jefferson, who fired three shots and took Abbott's gun when he fled.

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