FBI says New Orleans truck attack suspect visited city twice in months prior

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Source: Scripps News

Posted 1:22 PM, Jan 05, 2025 and last updated 1:48 PM, Jan 05, 2025


Authorities say the suspect accused in the deadly New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people visited the city twice in the months leading up to the attack and may have used special hands-free glasses to record the city's historic French Quarter.

Speaking at a press conference Sunday afternoon, FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia said Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran from Houston, also traveled abroad to Egypt, Cairo and Canada prior to the attack. Investigators are still looking at what correspondence — if any — Jabbar may have had with others while out of the country, but

Jabbar, 42, was ultimately killed during a gunfight with police after driving a rented pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers around 3 a.m. local time in the historic area of Bourbon and Canal Street.

The FBI said two guns, an ISIS flag, and a potential improvised explosive device were located inside the vehicle. Authorities added that other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter, though none were detonated.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crime/fbi-says-new-orleans-truck-attack-suspect-visited-city-twice-in-months-prior

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1. Guardian UK adds that the explosives couldn't detonate.

They required a detonator, not a flame source--and he provided an electric "match" out of inexperience with explosives--and used that because, they suspect, detonators are hard to come by.