A UGA student is among those injured in yesterday’s terrorist attack in New Orleans, the site of this year’s Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame. The AJC reports Elle Eisele, who attends UGA, and her friend Steel Idelson were among more than 30 people injured.
Both Eisele and Idelson graduated from the Canterbury School in Fort Myers Florida which the AJC cites at the source. The school, which appears to be speaking for the womens’ families, released a statement expressing the families thanks for the outpouring of thoughts, prayers and offers of support.
Earlier Wednesday, UGA President Jere Morehead noted on the university’s X account that a UGA student was injured and that he had spoken to the student’s family.
The man who drove a truck into a New Year’s Day crowd in New Orleans also has ties to the State of Georgia. Shamsud-Din Jabbar is a U.S. citizen from Texas and once a member of the U.S. Army who deployed in Afghanistan. Jabbar earned a BBA degree in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University in 2017. Records show he once lived in Cobb and DeKalb counties.
This article appears on Now Habersham in partnership with WUGA News
