Posted on 01/01/2025 8:24:56 PM PST by lasereye
Former Princeton wide receiver Tiger Bech, an All-Ivy League performer, was identified as one of the victims of the mass truck attack in New Orleans. Bech is the older brother of Jack Bech, a standout wide receiver at TCU in 2024.
Tiger was taken to a New Orleans hospital with critical injuries from the attack before dying on Wednesday, according to Kim Broussard, the athletic director at St. Thomas More Catholic High School. Bech was 28.
Tiger Bech played high school football at St. Thomas More Catholic High School in Lafayette, Louisiana before earning a scholarship to the Ivy League's Princeton. He twice earned All-Ivy League honors as a return specialist and caught 53 passes for 825 yards and three touchdowns in his career. After graduating from Princeton in 2021, he worked as a trader at Seaport Global, a New York brokerage firm.
The younger Bech started his career at LSU before transferring to TCU for his final two seasons of eligibility. As a senior, Jack posted 62 catches for 1,034 yards and nine touchdowns while earning honorable mention All-America honors from Phil Steele. Bech declared for the 2025 NFL Draft in December.
At least 15 people have died after a man intentionally drove a pickup truck around barricades and into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter. The driver was killed by police. The FBI is investigating the incident as a terrorist attack. A University of Georgia student was among the injured victims, according to Georgia president Jere Morehead.
After the truck attack, the Sugar Bowl between (2) Georgia and (7) Notre Dame was pushed 24 hours from Wednesday to Thursday at the Superdome in New Orleans. Security has also been increased at the other CFP games, the Rose Bowl and Peach Bowl, in the wake of the incident.
bttt
Handsome boy. So sad for his family.
Dang, if a former wide receiver can’t jump out of the way...
We’re all mad about the wall; but that doesn’t seem to have had anything to do with the NOLA terrorist - as far as we know, he was born here.
"The truck was rented by Turo and crossed the border from Mexico on November 16. It had been driven by someone else." - Matt Vespa
I can’t imagine the pain the victims’ families are going through. RIP.
The truck was licensed in Texas. It may have been the owner who drove it over the border. (Turo is a company like Airbnb - people rent their own vehicles to others through the company.)
Take it up with Vespa, instead of interjecting your speculations and mind-reading.
He’s not wrong about what he said - it just doesn’t show that the terrorist, nor anyone helping him, was illegally in the country.
Tens of thousands of people drive between Mexico and the US every day, legitimately.
I used to live in Texas, and have crossed the border more than a few times.
"On January 1, 2025, at around 3:15 a.m. CST (UTC–6), a man, identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an American-born resident of Houston, Texas and a convert to Islam, drove a rented Ford pickup truck into a large crowd on Bourbon Street and Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States."
It hasn't even been 24 hours since the attack [it's 11:00 p.m. CST].
There are apparently suspects still at large.
Why are you pressing this "it just doesn’t show that the terrorist, nor anyone helping him, was illegally in the country" business?
You're literally shooting from the hip, whereas I am pressing a well-known point about the southern border, and Pedo Joe's deliberate negligence about the border.
I heard earlier that it was Eagle Pass where the car was tracked crossing. That’s one of our land ports, and millions of people cross between Mexico and the US there every year, legally:
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/move-texas-freight/resources/fact-sheets/border/eagle-pass.pdf
I’m saying there is no proof yet of who drove the car from Mexico; and I think you’re jumping to conclusions by suggesting that the lack of a wall somehow caused this.
People drive through legitimate ports of entry - just as you have done - by the thousands every day, and “walls” don’t change that.
I’m saying it’s been less than 24 hours, and you’re way out on a supposition limb.
Your first post on this thread presents the ‘supposition’ that this attack was somehow caused by Biden stopping the wall.
I don’t see any proof of that in any of the reporting we’ve heard today; and as much as I favor the wall, I don’t see how a wall can stop things like this. (Remember, all of the 9/11 hijackers entered the US on legitimate visas.)
Glad you've figured all this out within less than 24 hours.
So why is a former football player more deserving of condolence than the other victims?
Seriously, why not list all that are know?
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