Those who died on Bourbon Street had gathered to celebrate the new year and were locals, tourists, students and parentsUniversity students. Parents and other people pursuing careers. A former college football player whose little brother made a name for himself in the sport, too. A Briton whose stepmother had been a nanny of Princes Harry and William.All had gathered on the most famous street in one of the world’s most festive cities to celebrate New Year’s Day. All were murdered when a US army veteran flying a flag of the Islamic State (IS) terror group drove a pickup truck around a makeshift police blockade and into a crowd on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street in the early morning of 1 January 2025, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more before authorities shot him to death during a gun battle. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/05/victims-new-orleans-new-year-day-attack
Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans, Anna Betts and Marina Dunbar
Publish date : 2025-01-05 12:00:17
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An Ivy League football player, a cook, a mother: the victims of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans
