A former football starone single motherThe father of two children and many young people: the 14 victims of the crime are beginning to have a face and a nameterrorist attack of the radicalized ex-military man Shamsud-Din Jabbar against the crowd of Bourbon Street in New Orleans which celebrated the beginning of 2025. The city, the whole of America mourns its dead while among the 35 injured there are two policemen who had confronted the attacker, two Israeli citizens and a student ofUniversity of Georgia.
Lives cut short while celebrating the new year: in the Bourbon Street’s Spoon River there is NiKyra Cheyenne Dedeaux from Gulfport, Mississippi who, inspired by her mother and grandmother, was over the moon because she was about to start school student nurse.
On Bourbon Street the nicknamed eighteen year old Biscuit she had gone with a cousin without the family’s knowledge: “If I had known I would have forbidden her. It was one of my worst fears,” said grandmother Jennifer Smith. The police waited to reveal the names of the victims after the autopsies were completed Of Hubert Gauthreaux, 21 years old, who graduated three years ago from a Catholic school in the Louisiana city, the prom photo with green tie.
Martin ‘Tiger’ Beach, 27 years old ed former football player at Princetonhad moved to New York after graduation to work at an investment firm. Originally from Louisiana, he had returned to New Orleans for a long weekend of hunting and fishing, two of his favorite pastimes, sharing the experience with kids he had befriended in college. Tiger was supposed to return to New York on New Year’s Day to resume work: instead he died in hospital in the early hours of the morning from his injuries.
Nicole Perez, a 27-year-old single mother, «was one amazing mom who often brought her 4-year-old son to work and was teaching him to read and count,” said Kimberly Usher-Fall, the employer who recently promoted the young woman to manager of one of its grocery stores. Kareem Badawi, of Muslim faith, had finished high school two years ago and had enrolled inUniversity of Alabama.
Reggie Hunter, father of two children, was 37 years old: he had just left work and joined a cousin on Bourbon Street to toast the new year. Louis and Cathy Tenedorio had recently had dinner for the last time with their son Matthew, 25 years old, who then went out to celebrate with friends: a boy who had never caused any problems and worked as a audio and video technician at the Superdome stadium. “He was the soul of every situation,” said the mother who, when her son went out, had asked him for a text message when he returned: a message that never arrived.