A vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, killing and injuring dozens. The FBI says the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was inspired by the Islamic State group and had expressed a desire to kill.
The driver in the New Orleans attack did not act alone, investigators believe. Guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device were found in the vehicle, along with other devices elsewhere in the city's French Quarter. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday evening that the FBI found videos that the driver had posted to social media hours before the attack in which he said he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressed a desire to kill.
The rampage turned festive Bourbon Street into a macabre mayhem of maimed victims, bloodied bodies and pedestrians fleeing for safety inside nightclubs and restaurants. In addition to the dead, dozens of people were hurt. A college football playoff game at the nearby Superdome was postponed until Thursday. Zion Parsons, 18, of Gulfport, Mississippi, said he saw the truck 'barreling through, throwing people like in a movie scene, throwing people into the air.' 'Bodies, bodies all up and down the street, everybody screaming and hollering,' said Parsons, whose friend Nikyra Dedeaux was among the people killed. 'This is not just an act of terrorism. This is evil,' New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said. Investigators work the scene after a person drove a vehicle into a crowd killing several, earlier on Canal and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The driver 'defeated' safety measures in place to protect pedestrians, Kirkpatrick said, and was 'hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did.' The FBI identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas, and said it was working to determine any potential associations with terrorist organisations
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