In New Orleans, Celebration Is Followed by Terror in the French Quarter NYT | Top Stories By: Jenna Russell, Keith Bradsher, Devlin Barrett and Emily Cochrane 2 January 2025 at 21:10 The attack that left 15 dead and about three dozen injured followed a distressingly familiar pattern of assailants turning vehicles into weapons. © Edmund D. Fountain for The New York TimesPolice officers near the scene where a man drove a pickup truck into pedestrians in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Wednesday.