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Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies had warned local police agencies about potential vehicle-ramming attacks before the holidays. [1] [2] In a 2017 memo, the city government also noted the risks of a mass casualty incident, including from a vehicle attack in the French Quarter, and it had plans to increase security in the area. [3]
PHOTO: Police cordon off the area around the site of the overnight attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025. (Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images)
Quigley survived the French Quarter attack, only hearing second-hand accounts of the carnage around him, only later finding out Tiger Bech was killed by a man New Orleans police would call a ...
The FBI also released a security photo Tuesday that shows a man believed to be the attacker riding a bike through the French Quarter on Oct. 31, 2024, about two months before the attack.
In 2013, Royd Anderson wrote, directed, and produced the first film (a documentary) about the tragedy titled The UpStairs Lounge Fire. [34] [35] [36] In 2015, Upstairs Inferno, a feature-length documentary written, directed, and produced by Robert L. Camina, had its World Premiere in New Orleans at the historic Prytania Theatre. [37]
Warren Harris Jr. (born 1961), known as The French Quarter Stabber, is an American serial killer who fatally stabbed four people, three of whom were gay men, in New Orleans' French Quarter from February to April 1977.
Amid the lives lost, fears of safety and feeling of tragedy in New Orleans and the Caesars Superdome, a moment of silence was observed in the stadium before the game began at 3 p.m. local time.
Map drawn three days after the fire showing the extent of damage. 1770 map of New Orleans; Square marked behind Parade is now Jackson Square. The Great New Orleans Fire (1794) was a major fire that destroyed 212 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 8, 1794, in the area now known as the French Quarter from Burgundy to Chartres Street, adjacent to the Mississippi River.