New details have emerged surrounding the death of former college football player Tiger Bech, who was killed in the January 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans.
Bech, who was a wide receiver and punt returner for Princeton, was one of fourteen people killed on Bourbon Street after a terrorist rammed his truck into a crowd.
And his family has since learned he died while saving the life of a nearby woman.
Bech’s brother, Jack, shared a screenshot of a text message on Xstating that surveillance footage obtained by the FBI showed Bech pushing a woman out of the truck to save her life.
Jack captioned the image: “My brother is a real hero. I can’t express the love I have for him. He’s an angel.’
Bech, 27, died Wednesday morning at a New Orleans hospital, according to local media citing Kim Broussard, the athletic director at St. Thomas More Catholic High.
Bech attended St. Thomas More Catholic High in Louisiana and played on the football team
Bech earned All-Ivy honors as a punt returner at Princeton University
Bech attended high school, where he played wide receiver, quarterback, punt returner and defensive back. NoLa.com reported.
He graduated from Princeton in 2021 and most recently worked as an investment trader at a brokerage firm in New York.
Bech had worked at Seaport Global, where company spokesperson Lisa Lieberman could not confirm his death. She told the AP: “He was extremely highly regarded by everyone who knew him.”
Bech’s younger brother, Jack, is a top wide receiver at Texas Christian University.
The victims of the tragic terrorist attack included a 25-year-old Superdome employee.
Matthew Tenedorio, 25, worked as an audiovisual technician at the Saints’ home stadium.
The truck’s driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was fatally shot during a shootout with police after he steered his speeding truck around a barricade and crashed into the crowd. About 30 people were injured.
The FBI recovered a black ISIS flag from Jabbar’s rented pickup truck and reviewed five videos posted to Facebook, including one in which he said he originally intended to harm his family and friends but ended up worried that news headlines would not focus on the “war between the believers and the unbelievers,” Raia said.
Jabbar also stated that he had joined ISIS before last summer and had made a will, the FBI said.
Jabbar joined the Army in 2007, served on active duty in human resources and information technology and deployed to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, the service said. He transferred to the Army Reserve in 2015 and left in 2020 with the rank of staff sergeant.
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