Alex Morena

Alex Morena grew up in the Lafourche Parish area and was known to family and neighbors as a young man of his community. At 20 years old, Alex’s life was centered on the everyday relationships and routines that quietly shape a person’s place in a small community — family gatherings, neighborhood friendships, and the ordinary hopes of someone on the verge of adulthood.

Public records and local reporting identify Alex as being from Galliano and as the driver found deceased on Dove Lane in Thibodaux on October 15, 2018. While news accounts understandably focus on the events around his death, available public sources indicate that Alex was a 20-year-old whose life mattered to those closest to him. He is named in court and law-enforcement records connected to the investigation that followed his death, which led to prosecutions and convictions in subsequent years.

Because there is no published funeral-home obituary or family-authorized memorial available online that matches his name and the exact date of death, many personal details about Alex’s life — such as his schooling, work, or favorite pastimes — are not part of the public record I could verify. That absence does not diminish who he was: a real person with family, friends, and the ordinary aspirations of someone his age. Those who knew him remember him beyond headlines; those records and local reports make clear that his loss left a lasting impact on his community.

This remembrance honors Alex’s life rather than the circumstances of his death. He is remembered as a young person from Galliano whose presence mattered to others, and whose untimely passing on October 15, 2018 took from his family and community the future they had hoped he would have. May this brief tribute acknowledge his personhood and the sorrow felt by those who loved him.