Victims of New Orleans Bourbon Street attack include former college football player and loving father
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A loving father of two and a former college football player were among at least 15 people killed when a rented pickup truck plowed into a crowd celebrating the New Year in New Orleans during Wednesday’s early hours.
A loving father of two and a former college football player were among at least 15 people killed when a rented pickup truck plowed into a crowd celebrating the New Year in New Orleans during Wednesday’s early hours. The FBI has identified Texas man Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, as the suspect of the attack in the city’s the popular French Quarter, and is investigating it as an act of terrorism. Authorities have yet to release the names of the victims, but some have been identified by their relatives and people close to them. Here are the names and lives of the victims we’ve come to know so far: The native of Lafayette, Louisiana, was a former Princeton football player and had been working as a junior trader for capital markets firm Seaport Global Holdings in New York City after graduating in 2021. Bech was “a ferocious competitor with endless energy, a beloved teammate and a caring friend,” Princeton’s football coach Bob Surace said in a statement on Wednesday.
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