Edward Pettifer, died on account of the assault on Bourbon Avenue, New Orleans
Credit score: Metropolitan Police
Following the horrific occasion that occurred on New 12 months’s in New Orleans, it has now been confirmed that one of many victims was a British man named Edward Pettifer, aged 31, from Chelsea in West London.
His household have issued a proper assertion stating: “All the household are devastated on the tragic information of Ed‘s demise in New Orleans. He was a beautiful son, brother, grandson, nephew and a pal to so many.”
“We are going to all miss him terribly. Our ideas are with the opposite households who’ve misplaced their members of the family attributable to this horrible assault. We request that we are able to grieve the lack of Ed as a household in non-public. Thanks.”
Edward Pettifer’s step-mum was a nanny to Princes William and Harry
Pettifer was additionally the step-son of Tiggy Legge-Bourke who had a detailed connection to the British Royal household. She was a nanny to each William and Harry between the years of 1993 and 1999, together with the time of Princess Diana’s premature demise. It’s understood that King Charles has been involved with the household to supply his private condolences.
Many of the different 14 victims have now been recognized, with only one remaining. Of these, the New Orleans coroner has confirmed they’re all from the US and aged between 18 and 63.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar is alleged to have carried out the assault
Additional particulars of the assault have since emerged, alleging that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, aged 42 carried it out. He intentionally drove a pickup truck right into a crowd of pedestrians on Bourbon Avenue, out celebrating the New 12 months. He had an ISIS flag within the truck and was killed whereas exchanging gunfire with the police.
Following a press convention held by Christopher Raia, Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, it has been revealed that he posted a number of movies on his Fb web page simply hours earlier than he dedicated this atrocity. Raia confirmed that inside them, he describes how he initially deliberate to kill his household however modified his plan as a result of he wished information headlines to deal with the “conflict between the believers and the disbelievers”. Raia added that Jabbar said that he had joined ISIS earlier than the summer time.
Moreover, the truck he used within the New 12 months assault got here from the car-owner rental web site Turo, which can be linked to the incident that occurred in Las Vegas when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded exterior a Trump Resort on January 1. The motive force died within the explosion, and authorities are but to verify if this, too, was a terrorist assault.