Conner Lambert, 25 was killed in Tuesday's tornado that struck his home in Arabi..
25-year-old Conner Lambert was killed Tuesday night in the tornado that struck the community of Arabi. Lambert, a UL-Lafayette graduate who worked as an engineer at Stennis Space Center is remembered fondly by his Chalmette High School football coach Jason Tucker.
“A great kid, a kid that you’d want your daughter to date, a kid you’d want your sons to hang out with,” said Tucker.
Tucker said Lambert was in the home he’d just purchased three months ago when the tornado hit. In addition to playing football at Chalmette, Lambert also excelled at track and baseball and was even a National Merit finalist.
Tucker said Lambert was very family-oriented and moved back to the area to be near his relatives, and the loss is felt throughout the community.
“It’s just tough for the whole community that one person gets killed, it’s definitely more of a ripple effect than you are looking at it as just one person throughout our community. He was loved and he’s going to be missed,” said Tucker.
Lambert not only excelled on the field at Chalmette, but Tucker said in high school he received about 15 academic scholarships and even a National Merit Scholarship from Alabama. Lambert got his engineering degree at ULL, and Tucker said the loss is even more tragic because of all Lambert’s potential.
“It’s just unfair you know when you look at it for at all the other knuckleheads out the world and something happens to this great kid,” said Tucker.
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