” Happy New Year’s, I love you”, were the last thoughts, 21-year-old Hubert Gauthreaux told his sister before he was killed in the terrorist attack in New Orleans.
When Shamsud Din Jabbar, a former US Army officer and ISIS attract, launched a fatal attack on Bourbon Street in the city’s traditional French Quarter, Hubert was one of the 14 survivors who were celebrating the start of 2025.
Before leaving the pickup truck and starting to fire on escaping parties, Jabbar drove it into a group at around 3.15 am. Fourteen people were killed, and around 30 people were injured in the invasion. Eventually, the assailant was shot during a shootout with authorities.
Hubert, a native of Marrero near New Orleans, ventured into the town for New Year activities with friends but not returned. His last words with his girl Brooke Gauthreaux, who studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, occurred at 12.08am, according to the Daily Mail.
She wrote,” Happy New Year, I love you! “!, to which he replied “love you very”.
Eventually, Hubert’s family visited the event blog, walking along on Whiskey Street with police accompaniment. Brooke, overcome with emotion, broke down during the move, moving perhaps the following officials to grief.
At the memorial site, she said:” The memory of his love and kindness will remain in our hearts forever. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers”. She depicted her younger sibling as a greatly giving, generous person who pleased those around him.
In the immediate aftermath of the invasion, the Hubert family posted desperately on social press about his departure, after discovering he had died in hospital.
” Missing person because of the crazy in the FQ!” Choose BOLO!!”! read one blog, first believing he was simply displaced in the panic. In the time following the death strike, tributes replaced search posts as reality took hold.
Brooke said:” I woke up yesterday and a piece of me was gone. My sweet, unselfish infant brother. You deserved something superior to this.
” Without anticipating a flimsy phone call from you, you’re only going to talk for an afternoon while you’re driving house, for counsel, for you to vent, or to help your little crap ass get out of trouble.” Without asking for a favor, she said in a Facebook post,” You are dropping everything to help me or coming all the way to and from Lafayette to pick me up or drop me off” or “without asking for a favor.”
” I was anticipating that two and a half hours drive you were going to take me on tomorrow to get me back home. You are therefore loved by people you’ve touched in this world, she added.
Brooke more continued”, I’m so glad to get your big girl. I’d do anything to support you on the baseball diamond by standing in the chairs. Up to blatantly driving you and your companions everywhere, but doing it nonetheless. Nothing feels true again. I’m just hoping that you’ll greet me as you walk through the door in a soft little grin and offer me a hug. I miss you but so little now.”
The 21-year-old’s ex-school, Archbishop Shaw High School stated:” It is with great pain that we share that student Hubert Gauthreaux, Class of 2021, was painfully killed in the foolish act of violence that occurred early this morning in the French Third.”
Hubert Gauthreaux’s title was added to a painting on Bourbon Street, created by designer Roberto Marquez, commemorating the 14 survivors of the New Orleans vehicle attack. LaTasha Polk was the ultimate target to get identified.
The patients, aged between 18 and 63, were mostly in their 20s and hailed from various places, including Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, and Great Britain.
The subjects identified were: Edward Pettifer, Brandon Taylor, Elliot Wilkinson, Terrence’ Terry ‘ Kennedy, William’ Billy ‘ DiMaio, Hubert Gauthreaux, Kareem Badawi, Andrew’ Drew ‘ Dauphin, Matthew Tenedorio, Nikyra Dedeaux, Reggie Hunter, Martin’ Tiger ‘ Bech, LaTasha Polk, and Nicole Perez.
Kareem Badawi, aged 23, attended the University of Alabama as a first-year learner. He was actually from Louisiana and had recently completed his education at the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge.
” My brother was full of life,” stated his father Belal Badawi during an exam”. I lost my brother. He’s a nice child. Alas, his life ended that fast and with no cause. Badawi told the Associated Press that his brother had nothing to do with someone coming to kill him.
Nikyra Dedeaux, an 18-year-old from Gulfport, Mississippi, aspired to become a registered nurse, according to her companion Zion Parsons. She was employed by a doctor and prepared to begin her academic research to advance her career.
She had her attitude, according to Parsons,” she didn’t have all figured out but she had the plan laid out .” Perkins, even a Gulfport native, was enjoying New Year’s Eve activities on Whiskey Street when a car struck Dedeaux.
A truck slammed into a corner and barreled through, throwing people into the air like in a video image. I was really lucky to be alive when it hit her and flung her at least 30 foot, she continued.
