At the cross-street of Bourbon and Saint Phillip, a few dozen yards from the police security line around the crime scene on Thursday morning, it was almost as if nothing had happened.
Tourists are taken past the decorated old Creole cabins, the bars serving cold beer to the sound, and the horse-drawn teams are taken through the western end of the French Quarter, in a familiar scene.
Hardly a day had passed since an . act of murder requested 14 livesHe injured almost 35 people in eight ways and even led to death. But now the area is torn apart in officiating.
Behind the facade, though, sadness and melancholy took over the city and was particularly acute among the residents who live and work in this famous neighborhood in the historic center of the city.
At a street corner office, Donyele Roberson served a small stream of customers by sending the first packages of the year and took a moment to think.
“It’s a waste,” he said. “I don’t want to because I want to see the city thrown into this light. He deserves better than that. There’s so much beauty here, and when you’re taken away and in a different light… it’s crazy.
New Orleans often reaches the pages of the national and international press in moments of crisis and disaster – from environmental disaster to space of crime – that pictures the resilience of the city is almost a trope.
And yet I suggest that many people here want to discuss the attack that happened just after 3am on New Year’s Day as centenarians are still dancing, chanting and clapping in the streets in 2025 before tragedy strikes.
“Our continuity is constantly being tested,” Roberson, 54, said. “But as a local, nothing is going to change how I live my life.”
In addition, on the Fourth, in the district district, which is adjacent to Bourbon, Harley Field served coffee and cake to a small line of sheriff’s deputies moving into the police lines.
“It hurts us more that this man is not from our city,” said the 29-year-old. “He’s from Texas. Why does he come here, to this community so closely knit, and do this to us?
While law-enforcement reporters were told on Wednesday they believed the driver and gunman, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had acted with others, their assessment changed on Thursday, now believing he acted alone. 42. Jabbar shot to exchange fire with the officers died. He was inspired by the secretive ideology of the Islamic State, the FBI said.
Videos made by the gunman and CNN reportedit may suggest that he contemplated violence in his family before changing his plans to attack New Orleans instead.
It was not long before the gesticulation overshadowed the grief throughout the city. Donald Trump tried to blame the immigration attack on the policy of the Democratic president who succeeds Joe Biden later this month, when false advice Jabbar, who is a US citizen, was a resident.
Locally, Republican leaders in Louisiana have tried to cast LaToya Cantrell as part of the charge against the city’s Democratic leaders, with a louder than usual voice. Some have shown that the metal system in the French Quarter, to stop the cars wanting to drive the narrow roads, crowded in the streets of celebrations, in the process of being stored when the attack was made, that is not to be completed.
“We’re playing around with the issue,” said Republican congressman Billy Nungesser said the local media. “This major was not doing anything that could be done.”
The commotion, however, by many of the inhabitants, did not seem close to making an attack.
“There was a lot of discussion saying, ‘They could have done this, they could have done that,'” said Gil Rubman, a 70-year-old stone mason working on Royal Street. anyone can prevent it from happening.
The names of the slain emerged from the state.
Matthew Tenedorio, a twenty-year-old video technician at the Superdome sports city. Nikyra Dedeaux, an 18-year-old nurse from Mississippi. Reggie Hunter, a 37-year-old father of two from the state capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and others from a wide spectrum of society, some from the city, others from elsewhere.
On Thursday afternoon, officials confirmed that they had reopened the block of Bourbon Street where the attack had taken place and that witnesses had seen the scene of the massacre, with the victims lying and crushed.
Street cleaners could be seen cleaning up debris and hosing through the streets. Local authorities He held a small benefit ceremony the intersection where the rampage had begun.