NEW ORLEANS — A bagel shop owner from Tacoma, Wash. was identified Monday morning by the Orleans Parish coroner after a deadly shooting over the weekend.
Jacob Carter, 32, was killed in the Marigny early Friday morning. NOPD said Carter was found dead after a shooting near Bourbon and Kerlerec Streets at about 1:30 a.m.
Carter had been in New Orleans during vacation with his husband and co-founder of Howdy Bagel, Daniel Blagovich, according to an Instagram post from Sunday.
"The shop will be closed temporarily as we navigate this time of grief," Howdy Bagel posted on Sunday. "Daniel and Jacob have been continually blown away and grateful for the ways that this community has rallied together to support Howdy Bagel."
In a social media post from Flour Moon Bagels on Dorgenois Street, owners called Carter's death, "An unimaginable loss to the baking and queer community."
"There is a big hole in so many hearts this week," Flour Moon Bagels said on Instagram. "We admired each other from afar, lending one another advice through the early days of our bagel journeys."
Flour Moon Bagels' owner had apparently met up with Carter and his husband the day before Carter was killed.
"We all talked of life, love and bagels," Flour Moon Bagels posted on Sunday. "The anger and guilt we are feeling that this tragedy happened while they were vacationing here in our city is beyond what I can express with words. To have been able to hug him on his last day on earth doesn't feel real."
Carter who moved to Tacoma, Wash. from Texas told KING 5 in July that the name "Howdy" was an homage to southern hospitality.
"It kind of invokes this sense of warmth and bringing people together, bringing people in and I think we are trying to foster a place of inclusiveness to everyone," Carter said in July.
Carter had started Howdy Bagel with his husband, Daniel Blagovich, in May.
As of Monday afternoon, a fundraiser for Howdy Bagel and Blagovich has raised nearly $160,000.
Carter's killing was the second reported homicide in New Orleans of 2024.
