LONDON — The royal family paid tribute Saturday to the British man killed within the New Orleans truck-ramming attack, a 31-year-old who was the stepson of Prince William and Prince Harry’s former nanny.
Edward Pettifer was amongst 14 folks killed when an ISIS-inspired U.S. Army veteran drove his truck right into a crowd of revelers on New Year’s Day, his household confirmed Saturday.
“The complete household are devastated on the tragic information of Ed‘s demise in New Orleans. He was an exquisite son, brother, grandson, nephew and a good friend to so many,” the household mentioned in a press release issued by London’s Metropolitan Police.
“We will all miss him terribly. Our ideas are with the opposite households who’ve misplaced their members of the family on account of this horrible assault. We request that we are able to grieve the lack of Ed as a household in personal,” it added.
Pettifer, from the west London neighborhood Chelsea, was the stepson of Alexandra Pettifer. She cared for the sons of King Charles III within the Nineteen Nineties, when she was broadly generally known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
Charles was deeply saddened after being made conscious of Edward Pettifer’s demise by official channels and has been in contact with the household to share private condolences, a Buckingham Palace supply mentioned.
William, the inheritor to the throne, mentioned that “Catherine and I’ve been shocked and saddened by the tragic demise of Ed Pettifer.”
In a publish on X, he mentioned that “our ideas and prayers stay with the Pettifer household and all these harmless individuals who have been tragically impacted by this horrific assault.”
All however one of many victims of the truck-ramming assault have now been recognized by the New Orleans coroner’s workplace.
A feminine whose id is unknown was introduced as the ultimate sufferer. Efforts to establish her are ongoing, in response to the coroner’s workplace.
All 14 victims died from blunt force trauma on Bourbon Street, the coroner’s workplace mentioned.
Seven of the victims lived in Louisiana, two have been from Mississippi, one was from Alabama, one was from New York and one was from New Jersey.
News that the Briton was killed within the assault emerged as authorities revealed that Shamsud-Din Jabbar had deliberate to make use of a transmitter to detonate two explosive devices he had positioned close by.
Neither of the explosive units have been detonated, and it stays unclear whether or not the failure was on account of a malfunction, lack of activation, or one other challenge.
Max Taylor, Rebecca Cohen and Tom Winter contributed.
