Former NFL star Antonio Brown has created a fund for the victims and their families in the terrorist attack that took place in New Orleans in the hours of New Year's Day.
More than a dozen people were killed and several others injured when the suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a truck into the crowd. On Bourbon Street. He was killed in a firefight with officers after a ramming and is believed to have been inspired by ISIS.
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Antonio Brown, #81 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, looks on before the game against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 20, 2020 in Atlanta. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
Brown launched a GoFundMe on Thursday with more than $3,500 raised in the first few hours.
“This has nothing to do with me and everything to do with helping the families who lost loved ones in New Orleans,” read the fundraiser's description. “I will work with Gofundme to make sure any dollar raised is divided between the 15 families who lost loved ones on January 1st. Prayers.”
Brown isn't the only person in the NFL to offer help to victims.
Matthias Hauswirth of New Orleans prays in the street near the site where a car plowed into a crowd of people on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon streets on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
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New Orleans Saints defensive end Cam Jordan donated $25,000 to a fund established by the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the city of New Orleans.
“I am joining the @GNOFoundation and @CityOfNOLA in donating $25,000 to the New Year's Day Disaster Fund to support the victims of this attack,” Jordan wrote about X. who were seriously injured.”
New Orleans police and federal agents are investigating a suspected terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Chris Granger/New Orleans Advocate via AP)
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The attack forced the postponement of the Sugar Bowl, which will now take place at Caesars Superdome at 4pm ET.
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