An 18-year-old aspiring nurse, a New York trader and a father of two have been named by relatives as among the dead in the New Orleans terror attack. Fifteen people have been confirmed dead by the city coroner after Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texan army veteran, ploughed his pickup truck through the crowded streets of New Orleans’s French Quarter. The victims have not been officially named, but relatives of Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, from Mississippi, said she was among the dead. • New Orleans attack: Happy crowds thronged streets … then the truck struckShe was visiting New Orleans with two other 18-year-olds; her cousin and her friend Zion Parsons. Parsons said the trio had just left Voodoo Chicken & Daiquiris on Bourbon Street, near

Source: The Times January 01, 2025 23:20 UTC