Malcolm Williams, top right, uncle to Latasha Polk, one of the victims of the January 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street, sighs as he and family and friends walk behind the hearse carrying her body outside the Charbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home in New Orleans on Wednesday, January 29, Latasha Polk's siblings and family tightly embrace each other as her casket is placed onto the back of a horse-drawn carriage during her funeral in New Orleans on Wednesday, January 29, Polk was one of the victims of the January 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street.
Latasha Polk's son, Christopher Carter Jr. A funeral and memorial service was held for Polk on Wednesday, January 29, Darrell Polk, brother to Latasha Polk, one of the victims of the January 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street, looks down upon the body of his sister moments before the casket is permanently closed at her funeral at Charbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home in New Orleans on Wednesday, January 29, A horse-drawn hearse carries the body of Latasha Polk, one of the victims of the January 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street, during her funeral in New Orleans on Wednesday, January 29, A funeral and memorial service was held for Polk, who was one of the Jan.
For weeks, New Orleans has tried to leave behind the scenes of carnage that rang in the New Year on Bourbon Street, after an attacker in a pickup truck left the iconic strip littered with bodies.
Mardi Gras season kicked off days later. Super Bowl preparations ratcheted up. But moving on has not come so easily for the family of Latasha Polk. When she died on Bourbon Street that night in a flash of chaos and terror, the loss tore through a community as vibrant as the city she called home.
They poured into the streets by the hundreds for a traditional second line, escorting her casket down Claiborne Avenue in a raw spectacle of tears, shrieks of grief, hugs and joyous dancing to the sounds of the Tidal Wave Brass Band. Polk's family gathered at the site of the attack on Jan. They danced and celebrated even then. On Wednesday, so many people arrived to pay their respects during a service at the Charbonnet Funeral Home that staff set up overflow seating.
