Antonio Brown hopes to raise $100,000 for the 15 families who lost loved ones in Wednesday’s terrorist attack in New Orleans.
‘This has nothing to do with me and everything to do with helping the families who lost their loved ones in New Orleans,’ read Brown’s post on the fundraiser’s webpage. ‘I will work with GoFundMe to make sure any dollar raised is split between the 15 families who lost their loved ones on January 1st. Prayers.’
The fundraiser was in its infancy on Thursday morning, having accumulated nearly $3,000 in gifts across 80 separate donations, including one $500 submission. It’s unclear if the controversial receiver has made any personal donations and he did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for more information.
Brown declared bankruptcy in May, but has since boasted of ‘having money’ and enjoying the high life despite his ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings.
The casualties in New Orleans occurred when Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen born and raised in Texas, rammed his vehicle into a crowd of revelers in the famed famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day. In addition to those killed, more than 30 people were injured. Jabbar was killed in a firefight with police following the attack at about 3:15am along Bourbon Street near Canal Street, the FBI said.
FBI agents look at the site where people were killed by a man driving a truck in a terrorist attack
Brown declared bankruptcy in May, but has boasted of ‘having money’ and enjoying the high life despite his ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings. It’s unclear how much, if any, he’s donated
Obviously, Brown has battled financial and legal problems since his dramatic exit from the NFL three years ago.
Fortunately, for any squeamish donors, GoFundMe issued a ‘donation protected’ label on the page, ensuring ‘a full refund in the rare case something isn’t right.’
Seven victims have now been identified among the 15 innocent people who were killed in the horrific New Orleans terror attack.
A former college football star, high school senior, father-of-two and young mother are some of the 15 victims who tragically died when Jabbar deliberately drove into pedestrians with an ISIS flag attached to his car.
Tiger Bech, 28, Ni’kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, Reggie Hunter, 37, Nicole Perez, 27, Matthew Tenedorio, Kareem Badawi, and Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, lost their lives in the senseless attack in the early hours of News Year’s Day in the French Quarter.
The College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame was postponed a day because of the attack.
The game, originally scheduled for 7:45 p.m. CST at the 70,000-seat Superdome on Wednesday, was pushed back to 3 pm Thursday. The winner advances to the January 9 Orange Bowl against Penn State.
‘Public safety is paramount,’ Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley said at a media briefing alongside federal, state and local officials, including Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. ‘All parties all agree that it’s in the best interest of everybody and public safety that we postpone the game.’
Hubert Gauthreaux’s family had been frantically sharing posts to social media that he was missing in the aftermath of the attack, before revealing he was found dead at a hospital
Ni’kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, also lost her life in the attack
Reggie Hunter, 37, (left). Nicole Perez, 27, (right)
Tiger Bech, 28, of Lafayette, Louisiana, died in the New Orleans terror attack Wednesday
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, drove a white Ford SUV into pedestrians ringing in 2025 in New Orleans’ French Quarter Wednesday around 3.15am local time
The decision to postpone the game meant numerous traveling fans with tickets would not be able to attend. Ticket prices online plummeted in some cases to less than $25 as fans with plans to depart on Thursday tried to unload them.
‘We can’t get new flights,’ said Lisa Borrelli, a 34-year-old Philadelphia resident who came to New Orleans with her fiance, a 2011 Notre Dame graduate.
Postponing the game ‘was absolutely the right call,’ she said. ‘I completely understand.’
She said they paid more than $250 per ticket and hadn’t bothered listing them for resale yet because prices were so low.
‘Of course we’re disappointed to miss it and to lose so much money on it, but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter,’ Borrelli said. ‘We’re fortunate enough that we’ll be fine.’
U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., said the decision to postpone the game ‘was not done lightly.’
‘It was done with one single thing in mind: public safety — making sure that the citizens and visitors of this great city, not only for this event, but for every event you come to in Louisiana, that you will be safe,’ Carter added.
