The youngest two were 18, the oldest 63. But most of the 14 people killed on New Year’s Eve in a car-ramming attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, were under 30.
American media have made public some biographical elements on these missing young people. Here are four victims:
– Ni’kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18 years old,
Originally from Mississippi, the young woman was to begin university training as a nurse. Her mother Melissa Dedeaux and her grandmother Jessica Smith revealed to the site Nola.com and the New York Times that their daughter and granddaughter left without warning for New Orleans to party with a cousin and a friend.
“When your parents tell you not to go out, I implore you, listen to them! It was a terrorist act and my baby is now gone,” cries Ms. Dedeaux on her Facebook page.
– Hubert Gauthreaux, 21 ans
His former high school, Archbishop Shaw, in Louisiana, announced on Facebook the young man’s “tragic” death in a “senseless act of violence.”
His older sister Brooke Gauthreaux told the New York Times that she joked with him because he preferred going to see fireworks in New Orleans to spending New Year’s Eve with her and their mother. After a Happy New Year text at midnight, the two women only learned of the attack when they woke up Wednesday morning, “in panic mode”, then, in the afternoon, the death of their son and brother, described as entirely focused on others, without ego.
– Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27 years old
His ex-University Princeton, where he played American football, announced the death of Martin “Tiger” Bech. “We couldn’t find a more appropriate nickname for this Princeton player,” who has the tiger as his mascot, said his ex-coach Charles W. Caldwell Jr., quoted in the press release. “A tiger in every sense of the word (…), a beloved teammate and a caring friend.”
He was a young trader on Wall Street in New York, his mother Michelle Bench revealed on NBC News television, blowing that she had just had time to say goodbye to him before he succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The friend who accompanied him survived the attack.
– Kareem Badawi, 18 ans
His father Belal Badawi told the New York Times that his son and his friends, from Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana, wanted to “have fun and do something special this year” for the New Year, in New York. Orleans.
A mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama, he was a sociable boy who “loved other people,” says Mr. Badawi. His university bowed to a “heartbreaking loss.”
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