New Orleans residents hold vigil for victims of New Year's Day truck attack

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People gathered at the Bourbon Street area in New Orleans in the United States on Saturday (Jan 4) to pay tribute to the victims of the New Year's Day truck attack.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00People gathered at the Bourbon Street area in New Orleans on Saturday to pay tribute

00:09to the victims of the New Year's Day truck attack.

00:12The mourners grieved at a makeshift memorial set up in the area adorned with crosses bearing

00:17pictures of victims and candles and flowers.

00:23One of our good friends, Elliot Wilkerson, passed away in the tragedy that happened on

00:27Bourbon Street the other night on New Year's Eve.

00:29Right now, I'm lost for words, really.

00:31This is a tragedy where we got to deal with all this violence from all around the world.

00:38Why here?

00:39This is a tourist city and people come from all over the world for our music, our food,

00:45our energy, but there's residents here who, after everybody leaves, after all of this

00:51is over, we still have to deal with this.

00:54And I think one of the best support that the families could get is to show that the

00:59residents of New Orleans is here.

01:01We stand by y'all.

01:03We support y'all.

01:04We are so sorry that this happened.

01:07Here, like, it's terrible.

01:12I think that we should honor and pay tribute to those young lives that got lost.

01:18All those young kids that came and celebrated New Year's.

01:23I think that's important for people to remember what times we're living at, the times, the

01:29bad times we're living at, and a bunch of crazy people out there trying to harm innocent lives.

01:36I feel that people were not expecting this and to start the year like this, it's overwhelming

01:42and we feel very sorry for all the victims here.

01:46The families.

01:47The families.

01:48People that they left behind.

01:50Exactly.

01:53During the incident in the early hours of January 1st, 14 people were killed and 30

02:00others injured after a U.S. Army veteran drove his truck into a crowd of revelers in New

02:05Orleans' French Quarter with an ISIS flag draped over his vehicle.

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