New Orleans holds vigil for 14 killed in New Year's Day truck attack
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Mourners gathered in New Orleans at a vigil for the 14 people including a Londoner who were killed in a truck attack on New Year’s Day. A makeshift memorial of crosses and pictures of the deceased was erected on Bourbon Street in the city’s historic French Quarter on Saturday night.
It came as the FBI said the suspect visited the scene twice before the deadly attack and recorded the major thoroughfare with hands-free glasses. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from Houston, also travelled to Egypt and Canada, before the attack, although it was not yet clear whether those trips were connected to the attack, Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said.
Investigators so far believe Jabbar acted alone. Victims' relatives held each other at the vigil as large crowds paid their respects to those killed in the rampage, with some laying flowers, candles and teddy bears at the scene. Among those killed were 31-year-old Edward Pettifer, from Chelsea, who was the stepson of Tiggy Legge-Bourke, Prince William and Prince Harry’s nanny between 1993 and 1999.
The Prince of Wales earlier said he was “shocked and saddened” by the “tragic” attack. The attack also killed an 18-year-old aspiring nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a former Princeton University football star, among others. Around 30 other people suffered injuries, eight of whom remain in intensive care.
