What we know about the victims of the New Orleans truck attack

A University of Alabama engineering student, a former wide receiver at Princeton University, a recent high school graduate, a doting father, a Brit with royal connections and a first-year college student were among the those who died on New Year’s Day when a pickup truck barreled into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

Fourteen people were killed and more than 30 were injured before police shot and killed the 42-year-old Army veteran who investigators say was at the wheel of the rented vehicle. The attacker was “100 % inspired by ISIS” and acted alone, according to the FBI.

New Orleans police and officials with the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office have not released all the names of those killed. But days after the carnage in the French Quarter, 14 families were bracing for funerals.

Here are some of their stories:

Kareem Badawi, 18

Kareem Badawi, 18, was home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the holidays. He had just completed his first semester at the University of Alabama, which he believed had a better engineering program than the University of Louisiana, said his father, Belal Badawi, 64.

He said he had given his son permission to go to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve with friends, many of whom were also on break from college.

Kareem had a kind heart and a great personality that attracted many friends, his parents said. He was the youngest of three children — he had a brother and a sister, who are 21 and 19. His father said that his son, who was 6-foot-5, was “beautiful” and that the family still referred to him as “the baby.”

Badawi said that he and his family are devastated and shocked and that Kareem’s killing would be especially hard on his older brother, with whom Kareem was very close.

“That’s another tragedy,” Badawi said Thursday. “My son, he ended up with no brother in his life to share his life. That was his buddy.”

He said the family loved to travel together.

“Our life is going to be different,” Badawi said, his voice breaking at times. “It’s just changed now without him.”

In a statement, the president of the University of Alabama, Stuart R. Bell, said: “I grieve alongside family and friends of Kareem in their heartbreaking loss.”

Martin ‘Tiger’ Bech, 27

Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, was killed, his mother, Michelle Bech, told NBC News on Wednesday afternoon.

Tiger, a graduate of Princeton University, where he was an accomplished wide receiver and punt returner, lived in New York City and worked as a…