LAFAYETTE, La. ( KLFY ) — Wednesday afternoon at Moncus Park friends and family gathered for a memorial to remember the life of Tiger Bech, one of the victims of the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
Lance Strother, Tiger’s former wide receivers coach and the director of Ministry and Outreach at St. Thomas More Catholic High School .
“Tiger’s siblings had reached out just within the dizziness and mayhem of the wake of this death, not knowing really what to do, just ask actually, as a surprise gift to their parents, if the community would show up and just show the love. Love is all we have right now,” said Strother.
The Bech family looked on from a second floor window of the Moncus Park office, where they could maintain their privacy.
“It was a short notice,” Storther said. “But the number of people that packed into this place was a beautiful testament and witness to the love that Tiger showed with everybody around during his time here and how much people loved him and his family.”