Who is Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the New Orleans truck attack suspect?

At slightest 15 radical person been killed and dozens wounded aft a man, identified by the FBI arsenic a United States subject veteran, ploughed a pick-up truck into a assemblage of New Year’s revellers connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans, the United States.

The suspect, who has since been killed successful a constabulary shootout, has been identified arsenic Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US national from the authorities of Texas.

The FBI is investigating the onslaught arsenic an enactment of “terrorism” and said it does not judge the operator acted unsocial successful the onslaught connected 1 of the country’s apical tourer destinations.

US President Joe Biden said connected Wednesday that the FBI had informed him that the fishy had posted videos connected societal media indicating that helium was inspired by the ISIS (ISIL) equipped group, expressing “a tendency to kill”.

Here’s what we cognize astir the incident, the suspect, and the latest connected the ground.

What happened successful New Orleans and when?

• At astir 3:15am (09:15 GMT) connected Wednesday, a rented Ford F-150 pick-up motortruck drove astatine precocious velocity into a assemblage of New Year’s revellers successful New Orleans, according to section police.
• New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the operator swerved astir barricades and was driving astatine “very precocious speed” and successful a “very intentional” manner.
• After the car stopped, the operator jumped retired of the conveyance and fired astatine responding officers, who changeable backmost and killed him.
• Hours aft the attack, 3 coroner’s vans stood astatine the tract of the car ramming, surrounded by constabulary portion arsenic tourists gathered nearby.
• The FBI said they recovered an explosive instrumentality astatine the site, but are moving to corroborate if it is viable oregon not.
• New Orleans constabulary said much than 300 further officers were connected work during the clip of the incidental to negociate New Year’s crowds.
• New Orleans Department of Public Work projects show that alloy bollards and information barriers on Bourbon Street were being replaced erstwhile the motortruck barrelled done the area. However, portion speaking to WWL-TV, City Council President Helena Moreno said that the attacker apt would person recovered a mode to termination whether the barriers were determination oregon not.
• Jabbar appears to person rented the F-150 Lightning electrical motortruck from the car rental website Turo, according to broadcaster CNN.
• Authorities recovered that the aforesaid rental website was linked to an incidental connected Wednesday successful Las Vegas, wherever a Tesla Cybertruck exploded extracurricular a Trump hotel. It’s not wide if the 2 incidents are linked.

Who is the suspect?

The FBI identified the fishy arsenic 42-year-old Jabbar, who served successful the US subject betwixt 2007 and 2020. He besides deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010.

He graduated from Georgia State University successful 2017 earning a grade successful machine accusation systems.

An ISIL (ISIS) emblem was recovered successful the conveyance on with weapons and imaginable explosive devices, the FBI said successful a statement.

“An ISIS emblem was located successful the conveyance and the FBI is moving to find the subject’s imaginable associations and affiliations with violent organisations,” it said.

New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno said the fishy was dressed successful afloat subject cogwheel and constabulary had described his acts arsenic intentional.

“This antheral was trying to tally implicit arsenic galore radical arsenic helium perchance could,” Kirkpatrick, the constabulary superintendent, told reporters connected Wednesday.

“He was hell-bent connected creating the carnage and the harm that helium did,” she added.

The FBI investigates an country adjacent the intersection of Orleans Street and Bourbon Street [Matthew Hinton/AP Photo]

Where did the incidental happen?

The incidental took spot successful New Orleans, a metropolis successful the southwestern Louisiana state. It lies connected the Mississippi River, adjacent the Gulf of Mexico.

The conveyance travelled on Canal Street into Bourbon Street, the bosom of the city’s celebrated French Quarter, a territory renowned for its bars, restaurants and jazz history.

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Bourbon Street is known worldwide arsenic 1 of the largest destinations for New Year’s Eve parties, and the country had listed peculiar deals for New Year’s, including LGBTQ parties and a resistance cabaret adjacent wherever the incidental took place.

The metropolis besides hosted crowds anticipating the Sugar Bowl assemblage shot playoff crippled aboriginal connected Wednesday astatine the adjacent Superdome. The crippled was postponed for 24 hours pursuing the attack.

New Orleans, nicknamed “The Big Easy” for its vibrant, laid-back lifestyle, is besides a apical US tourer destination.

However, it has faced past incidents, including shootings and conveyance collisions with crowds, specified arsenic 2 shootings successful November 2024 that near 2 dormant and 10 injured during a parade.

How galore radical were killed?

At slightest 15 radical person been killed, and 35 others injured, according to constabulary reports.

Among the wounded are 2 constabulary officers, who were wounded by the driver’s gunfire.

Zion Parsons, 18, of Gulfport, Mississippi, said helium saw the motortruck “barrelling through, throwing radical similar successful a movie scene, throwing radical into the air”.

“Bodies, bodies each up and down the street, everybody screaming and hollering,” Parsons, whose person Nikyra Dedeaux was among those radical killed, told the AP.

Among the dormant is Princeton University shot jock Martin “Tiger” Bech.

“He was a ‘Tiger’ successful each mode – a ferocious rival with endless energy, a beloved teammate and a caring friend. Our past speech was astir however arrogant I was of the maturation helium showed during his clip astatine Princeton and the occurrence helium was having aft graduation. My emotion goes to the full Bech family,” Head Coach of Football Bob Surace said, according to the Princeton Football website.

Was the New Orleans incidental a ‘terror attack’?

The FBI said connected Wednesday that it is moving with its partners “to analyse this arsenic an enactment of terrorism”.

“The FBI is moving to find the subject’s imaginable associations and affiliations with violent organisations,” Alethea Duncan, the adjunct peculiar cause successful complaint of the New Orleans FBI, told reporters.

“We bash not judge that Jabbar was solely responsible,” Duncan said. “We are aggressively moving down each lead, including those of his known associates.”

However, it has not specified what grounds is being utilized to marque that ineligible determination and accusation astir a imaginable motive has not been released.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell makes a connection aft the onslaught [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]

What is the latest connected the ground?

The FBI is starring investigations and Bourbon Street is cordoned off.

Local authorities person acceptable up a rallying constituent astatine the University Medical Center for families checking connected loved ones.

Despite the incident, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy stated that New Orleans instrumentality enforcement is prepared for Wednesday’s Sugar Bowl, with the Superdome present nether lockdown to guarantee safety.

US President Joe Biden assured Mayor LaToya Cantrell of afloat national enactment pursuing the attack, with the White House confirming the president volition person ongoing updates.

US President-elect Donald Trump besides offered condolences, calling the onslaught an “act of axenic evil”.