FBI and Partner Agencies Offer Additional Victim Assistance in Bourbon Street Attack

The FBI is committed to providing assistance and support to the victims of the January 1, 2025, attack on Bourbon Street. FBI victim specialists are engaging with the victims and family members impacted by the brutal attack, which took the lives of 14 innocent people.

The FBI has established a victim resource page where victims can complete a seeking victim form and be contacted directly for assistance by FBI victim specialists.

The FBI is working with our local, state, and federal partners to open a centralized location where victims and their loved ones can receive in-person information and assistance. At this Family Assistance Center (FAC), victims and family members will also be able to recover personal items left at the scene of the attack. Media will not be allowed to enter the FAC out of respect for the privacy of victims and their families. The FAC will open at St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church at 5621 Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans on Sunday, January 5 from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m. Regular operations will begin, Monday, January 6, when the FAC will provide services from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The FBI's Victim Services Division (VSD) is leading the Bureau's effort to ensure that victims and their families receive the services and support they need in the aftermath of this attack, in coordination with many local, state, and federal partners.

VSD's Victim Services Response Team (VSRT) is one of the many specialized FBI assets deployed to New Orleans. VSRT is a multi-disciplinary team of agents, analysts, and victim specialists who are specially trained to provide support in crisis following mass violence incidents. VSRT provides a number of different services, including coordinating emergency victim assistance funding for emergency expenditures like travel and lodging, repatriation of remains, child and dependent care, medical services, and mental health services.

The seeking victim form can be found at https://forms.fbi.gov/bourbonstreetvictims.

More information about FBI victim services can found at https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/victim-services.

For updates on the Bourbon Street Attack, visit www.fbi.gov/bourbonstreetupdates.