> New surveillance video shows pickup truck driving toward people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans
New surveillance video shows pickup truck driving toward people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans
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The Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadly attack that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group.
The FBI also revealed that the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an American citizen from Texas, posted five videos on his Facebook account in the hours before the attack in which he proclaimed his support for the militant group and previewed the violence that he would soon unleash in the famed French Quarter district.
“This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act,” said Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, calling Jabbar “100% inspired” by the Islamic State.
The attack along Bourbon Street killed 14 revelers, along with Jabbar, who was fatally shot in a firefight with police after steering his speeding truck around a barricade and plowing into the crowd.
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/bourbon-street-new-orleans-attack-fbi-investigation-updates-thursday/507-056d77ae-d4ce-4040-b861-72725f164c31