A group of victims of the New Orleans New Year’s Day terror attack have filed suit against city officials and contractors, saying they failed to protect revelers from a “preventable” truck ramming incident that killed 14 people and injured dozens.
The 21 plaintiffs range from Louisiana residents to visitors from Alabama, Florida, Texas and other states. Lead plaintiff Antoinette Klima shared a 12-year-old boy with Reggie Hunter, a 37-year-old Baton Rouge man who died in the attack. She said it was devastating that Hunter would no longer be there for all their son’s future milestones: learning to drive and graduating from