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| ‘She was the sweetest person’: first details of New Orleans victims emerge | ‘She was the sweetest person’: first details of New Orleans victims emerge |
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| Victims identified as Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18; Reggie Hunter, 37; and Tiger Bech, 27, a former football player | Victims identified as Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18; Reggie Hunter, 37; and Tiger Bech, 27, a former football player |
| The first details of the victims of the suspected terrorist attack on New Orleans’s nightlife center of Bourbon Street have begun to emerge as the city and the US absorbed the shocking news. | The first details of the victims of the suspected terrorist attack on New Orleans’s nightlife center of Bourbon Street have begun to emerge as the city and the US absorbed the shocking news. |
| A fast-moving vehicle had ploughed into the crowds of New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating the first hours of 2025 early on Thursday morning. The gunman driving the vehicle also exchanged fire with police, before being shot dead himself. | A fast-moving vehicle had ploughed into the crowds of New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating the first hours of 2025 early on Thursday morning. The gunman driving the vehicle also exchanged fire with police, before being shot dead himself. |
| The shocking attack left at least 15 people dead, according to a statement by the New Orleans coroner. Dozens more were injured. The attacker has been named as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old veteran from Texas. | |
| Local media in New Orleans identified the first known fatalities of the attack, including a young woman named Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, who had traveled to New Orleans from nearby Gulfport, Mississippi, with a cousin and a friend; Reggie Hunter, a 37-year-old father of two from Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Tiger Bech, a 27-year-old Lafayette, Louisiana, native and former football player. | Local media in New Orleans identified the first known fatalities of the attack, including a young woman named Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, who had traveled to New Orleans from nearby Gulfport, Mississippi, with a cousin and a friend; Reggie Hunter, a 37-year-old father of two from Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Tiger Bech, a 27-year-old Lafayette, Louisiana, native and former football player. |
| Melissa Dedeaux, the young woman’s mother, told Nola.com: “She was the sweetest person. She would give you anything, anything.” She said her daughter had apparently been hit by the speeding truck after running at the sound of gunfire. | Melissa Dedeaux, the young woman’s mother, told Nola.com: “She was the sweetest person. She would give you anything, anything.” She said her daughter had apparently been hit by the speeding truck after running at the sound of gunfire. |
| Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux graduated from Harrison Central high school in Gulfport in 2024 and was due to start a nursing program at Blue Cliff College later this month. | Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux graduated from Harrison Central high school in Gulfport in 2024 and was due to start a nursing program at Blue Cliff College later this month. |
| “Cheyenne was a very smart and outgoing girl,” her mother told Nola.com “She’s never gotten into any trouble.” | “Cheyenne was a very smart and outgoing girl,” her mother told Nola.com “She’s never gotten into any trouble.” |
| After finishing work on New Year’s Eve, Hunter decided to head to Bourbon Street “on a whim” to celebrate the new year with a cousin, Shirell Jackson, who identified herself as Hunter’s first cousin, his family told Nola.com. | After finishing work on New Year’s Eve, Hunter decided to head to Bourbon Street “on a whim” to celebrate the new year with a cousin, Shirell Jackson, who identified herself as Hunter’s first cousin, his family told Nola.com. |
| According to the outlet, Bech was hit by the suspect’s truck, said Kim Broussard, the athletic director at St Thomas More Catholic high school, where he played football before going on to play for Princeton University. | According to the outlet, Bech was hit by the suspect’s truck, said Kim Broussard, the athletic director at St Thomas More Catholic high school, where he played football before going on to play for Princeton University. |
| He graduated from Princeton in 2021 and worked as a trader at a New York brokerage firm, according to Broussard. | He graduated from Princeton in 2021 and worked as a trader at a New York brokerage firm, according to Broussard. |