The brother of a New Orleans attack victim has revealed what they last said to each other.
“The last thing we said to each other was that he told me he loved me,” Jack Bech said of his brother Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, while speaking to Sky Information. American correspondent James Matthews.
“I told him I love him, he told me he loves me even more, I hung up the phone and those were the last words I spoke to him.”
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The couple spoke by phone just hours before Tiger was one of the 14 people killed in the attack on Bourbon Avenue, where people celebrating the New Year were run over by a man driving a pickup truck.
Jack said he and his family will make sure “everyone knows” his brother’s name.
“His legacy will live on forever and my family and I will make sure that happens, that everyone knows his name,” he said.
“Yesterday was the hardest day of my life and every day will be the hardest day of my life just living there knowing I can never talk to him again,” Jack added.
Tiger was found by his family in the hospital while he was unconscious but still alive, time which Jack said was precious to them.
“He couldn’t respond to any of us, but I really think he could hear us, his eyes were closed.”
“God kept his heart beating for a reason, I think so my family could say goodbye,” he said.
The time they spent together at Christmas was the best “we’ve ever had as a family,” Jack said.
“He saw all his friends when he was home, made time for everyone, and saw so many people he hadn’t seen in a long time.”
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Jack said he believed everything happens for a reason.
The night before Tiger’s death, Jack said his brother “confessed his faith and love in God.”
“That was the first time any of us had heard that in a long time, a decade, years and years,” he added.
Tiger “had a wonderful life,” Jack said. “He put 80 years into 27.”
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