Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 46, § 1854. Persons eligible for awards

(1) A victim of the defendant's crime or the parent or legal guardian of a minor who is the victim of the defendant's crime.

(2) A surviving spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, or child, including posthumous children, of a victim who died as a direct result of the defendant's crime.

(3) Any person, except a law-enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties, who is injured or killed while trying to prevent the defendant's crime from occurring in his presence, or trying to apprehend the defendant during the course of the crime.

(4) A surviving spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, or child, including posthumous children, of any person, except a law-enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties, who dies as a direct result of trying to prevent the defendant's crime from occurring in his presence, or trying to apprehend the defendant during the course of the crime.

(5) Any other person legally dependent for his principal support from the victim who dies as a result of the defendant's crime, or legally dependent for his principal support from any person who dies as a direct result of trying to prevent the defendant's crime from occurring in his presence, or trying to apprehend the defendant during the course of the crime.

(1) The person would be eligible for an award had the crime occurred in Louisiana.

(2) The state, country, or territory in which the crime occurred does not have a victims' compensation program deemed eligible pursuant to the provision of the federal Victims of Crime Act, Chapter 112 of Title 42 of the United States Code, and does not compensate nonresidents.