The attack early on New Year’s Day in New Orleans has claimed the life of former Princeton football player Tiger Bech. He was only 28.
Bech was a wide receiver at Princeton, an All-Ivy League player, and is the older brother of Jack Bech, a standout wide receiver at TCU last year, CBS Sports reported.
Unfortunately, Bech was celebrating on Bourbon Street early on Wednesday morning when a man investigators have identified as 42-year-old Muslim convert Shamsud Din Jabbar drove a truck through the crowd of revelers on the street, killing more than a dozen and injuring 30 or more.
Officials reported that Din Jabbar’s truck had a black ISIS flag attached to its rear gate and noted that the FBI is investigating the incident as a terror attack.
Bech, a native of Louisiana who played high school football at St. Thomas More Catholic High School in Lafayette, was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was reportedly kept on life support until his family could be contacted, KLFY-TV reported
His brother, Jack, posted a message to social media, writing, “Love you always brother! You inspired me everyday, now you get to be with me in every moment. I got this family T, don’t worry. This is for us.”
Tiger Bech played for Princeton from 2016 to 2018 and, after college, became a stockbroker at a New York firm.
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