A truck attack on New Orleans' famous Bourbon Street on New Year's Day killed 14 people and injured dozens more. The incident shattered a night of revelry, leaving families and friends grappling with the tragedy.
A memorial on Bourbon Street is seen at the site of a deadly truck attack on New Year's Day in New Orleans , Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The night, like countless others Bourbon Street has welcomed over the decades, started out ripe for celebration. With temperatures hovering in the 50s (10-15 Celsius) hours after the arrival of the new year, the open-air party pulsing down New Orleans ’ famed nocturnal artery was still hot, drawing revelers from near and far. After a 3 a.m.
pizza, a Pennsylvania man whose family had driven more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) to check the city off their bucket list headed back into the music-filled street.A pair of former Princeton University football teammates joined the crowd so one could show the other what the city’s easygoing energy was all about. With years of waiting tables in the city’s restaurants behind him, a New Orleans native came down to watch Bourbon Street’s nightly parade of humanity as he had done so many times before. By the wee hours Wednesday, the crowd strolling beneath the historic street’s wrought-iron balconies, many with go-cups of liquor in hand, was filled with carefree promise. Then an enraged Army veteran behind the wheel of a speeding pickup turned their night of joy into a nightmare. “My brother just wanted to go show (his friend) the good spirits and the joy that New Orleans brings, especially on a day like New Year's, all the smiles and the fun,” said Jack Bech, a younger sibling of one of the victims of the deadly truck attack, Tiger Bech. “Nobody thought it would ever end the way it did.” In the days since the rampage killed 14 and injured dozens more, families and friends have questioned the fates that conspired to put loved ones in the wrong place at a singularly horrific moment. The victims, though, were just following legions who have flocked to Bourbon Street over the years with nary a car
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