Bourbon Street Attack Memorial Crosses

Shortly after 3:15 a.m. on January 1, 2025, a driver turned onto Bourbon Street from Canal and struck pedestrians along three blocks to Conti, killing fourteen people aged 18 to 63 and injuring at least 57. The dead were Kareem Badawi, Martin Bech, Andrew Dauphin, Nikyra Dedeaux, Billy DiMaio, Hubert Gauthreaux, Reggie Hunter, Terrence Kennedy, Nicole Perez, Edward Pettifer, LaTasha Polk, Brandon Taylor, Matthew Tenedorio and Elliot Wilkinson. Volunteers set fourteen white crosses here on January 5, 2025.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — steps away
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — steps away
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.2 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• Congo Square — 0.4 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• The Presbytère — steps away
• Cathedral of St. Louis, King of France — steps away
• Jackson Square — steps away
• Lower Pontalba Building — steps away