A widely known American faculty soccer participant, a younger aspiring nurse and a mom of a four-year-old are among the many victims of the New 12 months’s day assault in New Orleans through which no less than 15 individuals have been killed.
Their names are being launched by households and relations earlier than authorities full autopsy examinations.
This is what we all know up to now.
Extra on the New Orleans assault
Martin ‘Tiger’ Bech
Martin “Tiger” Bech is a former soccer participant at Princeton College.
His dying was confirmed in a press release by the college.
“There was no extra applicable nickname of a Princeton participant I coached,” Princeton soccer coach Bob Surace stated in a press release.
“He was a ‘Tiger’ in each method – a ferocious competitor with infinite vitality, a beloved teammate and a caring good friend.”
Martin Bech’s brother, Jack Bech, posted a tribute on X alongside a information article reporting his dying.
“Love you at all times brother!” he wrote. “You impressed me on a regular basis now you get to be with me in each second. I obtained this household T, don’t fret. That is for us.”
Mr Bech was a member of the 2016 and 2018 Ivy League Championship groups.
Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux
The 18-year-old was an aspiring nurse.
Her dying was confirmed by her mom, Melissa Dedeaux, on social media.
“I misplaced my child simply pray for me and my household pleaseeeeee!!! God I want you now!!,” the mom pleaded, together with {a photograph} of her daughter carrying a crimson commencement cap and robe from this yr.
Ms Dedeaux – who can also be a nurse – advised native media outlet Nola that her daughter had been as a result of begin her nurse coaching later this month.
She added that Nikyra had snuck out with a cousin and good friend, who each survived.
Nikyra’s faculty good friend, Dante Reed, advised the New York Instances he had acquired a frantic name from her cousin, saying that they had run once they heard gunshots, and that she – Nikyra – was lacking.
Her grandmother, Jennifer Smith, advised the paper “she was a pleasure for the little time we had her.”
“I am very pleased with all of my grandchildren, and that one particularly.”
Reggie Hunter
The dying of the shop supervisor and father of two was confirmed to CBS Information, the BBC Information’ US companion, by his cousin Shirell Robinson Jackson.
Ms Jackson described him as “lively”, and stated the 37-year-old had messaged the household minutes after midnight to want them a Joyful New Close to.
He was with one other cousin who was injured within the assault.
Mr Hunter’s youthful sister, Courtney Hunter, advised the NY Instances her brother beloved to be across the household and was aggressive when it got here to enjoying video games.
Nicole Perez
Kimberly Usher Fall, Ms Perez’s good friend and boss on the deli retailer she managed, referred to as her a devoted, good and a “good-hearted individual”, in accordance with CBS.
“She was stunning and lively,” she wrote on an internet fundraiser she arrange for her good friend.
The 27-year-old was additionally a mom to a four-year-old boy.
Ms Usher Fall stated Ms Perez used to deliver her son into work on his days off from faculty.
She used to show him arithmetic and the alphabet within the deli’s storage room in between work, Ms Usher Fall advised The Washington Submit newspaper.
“She actually was a great child, man, she actually was,” she stated, including “she was simply getting all the things going, and he or she’s gone, simply gone.”
Matthew Tenedorio
The 25-year-old audio-visual technician had a “laid-back spirit and infectious laughter” that introduced pleasure to these round him, in accordance with a fundraiser his household arrange in his title.
His mom Cathy Tenedorio, advised US broadcaster NBC Information, she final noticed her son alive at 21:00 native time on New 12 months’s Eve, including she remembered hugging and kissing him.