Update 3 p.m.: The perpetrator of the attack, Shamsud Din Jabbar, has a Federal Elections Commission record of donating to Democrat campaigns through the Democrats’ main fundraising site, ActBlue.
Update 2 p.m.: FBI said in a statement that the suspect is a U.S. citizen from Texas. The death toll has risen to 15.
“Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle,” the statement said. “Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s Special Agent Bomb Technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable and they will work to render those devices safe.”
“He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to have been rented and we are working to confirm how the subject came into possession of the vehicle,” the statement said of deceased suspect Shamsud Din Jabbar. “An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.”
Jabbar is an Army veteran who was deployed to Afghanistan for 11 months starting in 2009. He was an IT specialist. Most recently, he lived in a mobile home in the outskirts of Houston, close to a mosque, and in a neighborhood of mostly Muslim immigrants.
Update 8:30 a.m.: The perpetrator has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, who was then shot and killed in a shootout with police, law enforcement sources told Nola.com. The truck Jabbar was driving had a black flag mounted on it. Sources told the New Orleans Advocate that the flag was an ISIS flag, associated with an Islamic terrorist organization.
At least 10 are dead and more than 35 are injured and are at hospitals in the area, including two police officers, after a man drove a pickup truck into a crowd that was celebrating the New Year in the French Quarter of New Orleans at around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday morning.
After running over dozens of people at a high rate of speed, the man exited the truck and fired a weapon, injuring the two police officers.
No information has been released about the man’s identity, but investigators said they found what appear to be explosive devices in the truck. The driver was killed at the scene by police after a gun battle.
A flag, possibly a black flag with white lettering, was mounted on the truck, and law enforcement wrapped it in a gray bag so it was not visible, leading to speculation that this was an act of terror. The ISIS flag is black with white letters.
Mayor Latoya Cantrell called it a terrorist attack, although other officials, including the FBI, stopped short of that description. Update: The FBI has now said it is being investigated as a terrorist attack.
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick agreed the attack was intentional, as the man drove around barricades on Bourbon Street, which had been blocked off for New Year’s Eve revelers.
“It was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could,” the New Orleans police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, said in a news conference early Wednesday. “He was hellbent on creating the carnage, and the damage that he did.”
She said it appears that most of the dead were local residents, not tourists.
The FBI has taken over the lead role in the investigation, but thus far has not identified it as an act of terrorism. The attack came just hours before the kickoff of the Sugar Bowl at the Superdome, less than a mile away.
In a similar attack, on Christmas Day a man of Saudi origin drove his vehicle into a street market in Magdenburg, Germany, killing five and injuring over 40.
Update: A fire broke out at a New Orleans Airbnb rental residence that investigators now believe had been rented by the suspect in the Bourbon Street attack. Dozens of people were evacuated from the building early Wednesday morning when the fire was reported on Mandeville Street, at an address that was about two miles from the Bourbon Street attack.
Update: Fox News reported that the truck used in the New Orleans terrorist attack came through the border at Eagle Pass, Texas two days ago.
Update: At 10 a.m. Eastern, President Joe Biden issued a statement in which he said, “The FBI is taking the lead in the investigation and is investigating this incident as an act of terrorism.”
This story will be updated.
This is the results of our government and elected officials who does not care about Americans but only money and power.
Voters need to wake up as our way of life is being threatened by politicians who lie and steal from us.
Welcome to the Justice system illegals are more important than US citizens.
Deporting illegals and undesirable aliens won’t be a easy routine task, its WAR and we all must be vigilant, cautious in every day life and to assist authority’s in anyway possible to foil alien crime and attacks on innocent law abiding citizens, Europe needs to do the same.
The US government has data on every citizen, beginning with birth certificates, naturalized citizen filings, social security accounts, etc. Anyone legitimately suspected of a crime who is unable to produce such documentation should be deported after whatever sentence they serve.
“Voice of opposition to Tyranny” states “Whoever is unable to produce such documentation should be deported after whatever sentence they serve.” Way to bring in the new year with a healthy dose of irony there W Coogan!! Sheesh. “Show me your papers” was pretty closely associated with Nazi Germany if I recall my history.The founders would not recognize their country and would be ashamed by some of the citizens
As would the founding fathers rolling in the grave over enormous growth of gvt, as well as the loss of control of immigration. Are you ok with known criminals, and unknown people from anywhere on thr planet, walking freely among the people?
Read some history. Many of the first people to come here were outcasts. Religious mainly but also criminals. The founders would be puzzled by any immigration controls. Until the 1920’s if you showed up healthy you were allowed in. You may have heard of the ten “melting pot”? They certainly would have not understood the complexity unworkable immigration system we have no with basically no way to immigrate from many countries. They would be especially mystified at wanting to keep educated people or those wanting to come better their lives. The Declaration of Independence simply says “all men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…”. Nothing about just Americans and people here. “All men” and that has been underwood to be “all people.” Argue all you like but there is no basis for the current immigration hysteria from the founders. In fact if we followed their guidance about no foreign entanglements we wouldn’t have screwed up many of the countries people are trying to escape from.
There was a time when I would view your comment as a bunch of crazy stuff. No longer. All federal employees need to review the purpose of their jobs and for whom they work.
The suspect was a U.S. citizen.
And veteran! “Thank you for your service” of course.
Does that somehow excuse his terrorism?
Oh. So, I guess his actions were perfectly OK?
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Seriously. What difference does that make in any way?
Don’t get in a huff by what I said, I was merely replying to all of the anti-immigrant sentiment on here in response to this terrorist attack. A bunch of nonsense about illegal aliens when it was native born American who committed this atrocity. I can almost taste the disappointment of some on here when it was revealed the attacker wasn’t an immigrant. Can you imagine the level of vitriol on here if he had been?
Don’t get in a huff?
Show me how. You are the very picture of huff.
A powerful retort to be sure.
Agree, but in this case the terrorist was born and raised here and a US citizen from birth. It sounds though like he may also have become a radical Islamist. Following doctrine of demons.
And at least the officials could say it “appears” to be an ISIS attack… until further investigations solidifies his motive.
Wonder whose flag he’s used to flying on that tailgate pole?
Why don’t you tell us. Maybe the University of Georgia, Rainbow Pride Flag. Your undertone is un American.
“and law enforcement wrapped it in a gray bag so it was not visible…”
And the cover-up begins. Every institution in America is corrupt.
Yes can’t trust the government.
Can’t trust the crackpot media either. This account says that the truck came across the border from Mexico. That was reported by FOX and has now been retracted. The truck was rented from a private citizen on Truro.
See how that works ?
And now will the leftists support the banning of vehicles as tools and as weapons over the banning and charging of individuals utilizing said tools as weapons?
Psychopaths shall psychopath, no matter the tool at hand, be it knives, firearms, or vehicles.
The tool is not the cause, nor shall it ever be.
The psychopath is the instrument of the carnage, no matter what tool they choose to utilize.
Take out the psychopath, without fail, and it matters not what tool they utilize.
So many of these psychopaths are known unto law enforcement well before they carry out their acts of terror and carnage, so why are they not eliminated or incarcerated based upon that knowledge, BEFORE they can carry out any action of terror or carnage?
How do their supposed psychopathic rights supersede the rights of all others to exist within safety from the actions of these psychopaths?
Yes let’s ban guns, knifes, vehicles, planes, explosives and anything else that terrorist might use.
That will fix the problem NOT .
Let’s get rid of all these know it all politicians who are the real tool of terrorists.
Psychopaths shall psychopath, no matter the tool at hand, be it knives, firearms, or vehicles.
The tool is not the cause, nor shall it ever be.
The psychopath is the instrument of the carnage, no matter what tool they choose to utilize.
Take out the psychopath, without fail, and it matters not what tool they utilize.
Anything can be a weapon if used as a weapon right Randy??
Psychopaths shall psychopath, no matter the tool at hand, be it knives, firearms, or vehicles.
The tool is not the cause, nor shall it ever be.
The psychopath is the instrument of the carnage, no matter what tool they choose to utilize.
Take out the psychopath, without fail, and it matters not what tool they utilize.
Absolutely correct.
I did a quick survey of my garage, and there are over 200 items I could use as a deadly weapon. All of them available in home improvement stores. No background check required.
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The issue is not the tool used. It is the person using the tool.
Total coincidence this crap happens all over Europe on the same day.
Committed by the same people.
Fox News itself is now saying the report about the truck crossing the border at Eagle Pass is incorrect.
Given that the FBI is now on the case, one has to wonder how many FBI agents and operatives were involved in the matter before it happened. And don’t forget Homeland Security. Given recent history, it is a fair question.
JMARK: “Fair question” how?
The FBI agent in charged said this was not a terrorist attack, trying to figure this out.
The federal Bureau of incompetence needs to huddle first and decide which language they’re going to use to deflect the real truth, and tell another lie in its place.
Important to remember. The religion of “peace” defines peace as islam ruling the world. Until that happens, it is not peace, and followers of that so-called religion are at war with anyone not complying.
They are neither peace loving nor anti-imperialist. They want a restoration of the Caliphate.
They are absolutely peace loving, for their definition of peace. Not yours.
Weird, not an immigrant after all.
New Orleans attacker Shamsud Din Jabbar was a Texas native and former U.S. Army serviceman.
Great start to the New Year with President elect misleading the public with claims that this was an illegal.
It’s horrific that you seem to revel in the fact that this is terrorism by a person born in this country.
Misleading the public requires the person speaking to knowingly ignore the facts. I would bet every dollar pResident Brandon allows me to keep in my wallet the initial reports assumed the attacker was an illegal alien. That information, provided to the President Elect by trusted associates will be shared.
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Like you have never accidentally said something incorrect because you were not provided all the facts. Please…
that these events happen is horrible. Politicizing these events through false information does nothing to stop these events or build a better America. Says something about Trump’s trusted associates if they are feeding him false information. But who cares, unless the facts come from their trusted source no one believes them anyway.
ALL the information in the immediate aftermath of the attack indicated it was not a US Citizen that committed the attack. The advisors were feeding the information as they knew it at the time.
And, your last sentence is pure gold. I could not agree more.
How many more foreigners are the Asssembly of Los Anchorage, Alaskan’s welcoming, sanctuary city and Governor Mike Dunleavy going to bring in ? His administration is giving huge grants to NGOS to bring more and more in !
When is enough ? Until our service sectors collapse under the overwhelming hordes of humanity, sent here for Alaskans to support ?
Not doing their number one job to protect Alaskan citizens from invasion.
Alaskans and our mediocre governmental officials cannot afford to support this incompetent insanity being forced on Alaskan citizens .
Wake up folks , if these elected officials won’t go along with President elect Trump’s plan to close the border and fix this invasion fiasco then they should face the full consequences of the law. Where is the outcry ??
We are being literally invaded !
Non-sequitur much?
Call your reps and ask them why we are importing so many terrorists we already have an over supply of our own.
Where are all the people saying the police should not have shot the terrorist that murdered all those people? After all, this piece of human trash has a family and that family will be ever so upset their family member was killed while trying to murder as many people as they could.
New Orleans…
There are three types of atrocities:
1. Ethnic/racial atrocity
2. Political atrocity
3. Religious atrocity
When atrocity types 1, 2, and 3 are combined, the event becomes –
Horror X 3
(We have the Hamas and ISIS horrors, for examples.)
But, we must pay no attention to the ethnic/racial, political, and religious natures of most atrocities in the USA and throughout the world. Our esteemed politicians will scoldingly remind us, “Tsk, tsk, that’s not who we are.”
And we are frequently instructed by our religious and political betters,
“Islam is a religion of peace,” G. W. Bush and the pope.
Also, “Diversity is our strength,” B. H. Obama and Joe. To dispute either of these two inanities is to risk the wrath of the NYT’s editorial writers and the FBI, not to omit ISIS, the Taliban, and the like.
Meanwhile, minority Christians and Jews are being tormented and murdered left-and-right in many, if not most, Muslim nations. Our politicians answer to those atrocities is, “We misunderstand the devout Muslims. More dialogue!”
Anyhow, a Happy New Year greeting to those dwindling few of us who are not yet run over, bombed, shot, or stabbed in an ethnic, religious, and/or political atrocity. Only nineteen days remain until moving day at the White House!
The truck did not come from Mexico, it was driven by an American citizen who rented it in Truro. Come on, at least get your facts straight before you un hit publish.
Ed Murrow, this is why it says in the story — very clearly, I might add — that Fox News was reporting that item. The FBI later gave another version. You can be sure that in the fog of war, what is known and reported will change in the early hours after a major disaster or incident like this. We had not reported on his nationality until later this afternoon, when the FBI confirmed he was a U.S. citizen.Thanks for playing. – sd
More of this will happen as Trump nears his swearing-in date. Remedy:
start packing! (not luggage…. and carry extra ammo)
Room temperature suspect lived in a trailer park in TX filled with middle-eastern people. The trailer park was located within walking distance of a mosque. The FBI can infiltrate Catholic Churches to build dossiers on parishioners who want to preserve traditional mass. Yet the FBI cannot (will not) infiltrate mosques for obvious reasons. Tell me political correctness/wokeness has not lobotomized American law enforcement.
Sure would be nice if the FBI could infiltrate Catholic Churches to build dossiers on child molesters…
Billy, you forgot to mention molestation by members of your precious NEA, or perhaps the hundreds of thousands of juvenile ” illegal” children allowed entry into our country by the great war chief ” China Joe” who remain unaccounted for.
Whoosh!
That is the sound of Rollo’s point flying right over Bill’s head.
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Look, Bill… There is not understanding someone’s point, and deliberately ignoring it. You chose the latter here, you are way to smart to have missed the point.
The left keeps telling us that it’s white supremacist that are the largest threat to America, is there any wonder the results of the recent election went the way they did?
Troubling that the New Orleans perp & the Trump Tower perp in Las Vegas were both veterans. And what’s up with the ISIS flag? The Biden Administration has recently been spewing the nonsense that ISIS is a friend of the USA after their recent overthrow of the secular Syrian Government. Classic geopolitical blowback!
Can you provide a credible link to the Biden Administration that ISIS a friend of the USA?
Both terrorists attacks of January 1, 2025 on US soil were carried out by US Army veterans that were born in the USA. I believe we need to round up all US Born army veterans and place them in internment camps until they can be thoroughly vetted to make sure they are not terrorists. Sounds crazy, this is how you all appear when you listen to hard core right wing news organizations that want to blame illegal immigrants for everything. Get your facts straight before spewing your racist hate.
Go to your room and pout.
We don’t need the Alaskan for corruption or your nonsense.
Pointing out the exception does not disprove the rule. Just because this attack was a US Citizen does not mean the myriad of other attacks were not committed by individuals in the country illegally.
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And you beclown yourself when you go straight to racist hate. It indicates a low intellect and a childish desire to define others based on your own prejudices.