New Orleans, US:
Safety digicam footage has emerged of suspected terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowing his pickup truck down a packed Bourbon Avenue in New Orleans on New 12 months’s Day. The assault killed no less than 15 individuals and injured 35 others. Police described Jabbar as a “terrorist,” whereas the FBI stated “an ISIS flag was positioned within the automobile,” utilizing one other identify for the Islamic State armed group.
A video circulating on social media confirmed Jabbar’s white pickup truck, with an ISIS flag, inching via Canal Avenue visitors earlier than taking a pointy flip down Bourbon Avenue.
Shamsud Din Jabbar was in a position to plow onto Bourbon Avenue from Canal Avenue in New Orleans, in his pickup truck with an ISIS flag, as a result of the metal limitations weren’t raised.
Authorities officers must be fired and indicted for this gross incompetence.pic.twitter.com/aMHmA05aLT
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 1, 2025
In one other video, the white Ford pickup truck may be seen dashing via the crowded French Quarter on New 12 months’s Day as partygoers scrambled round to avoid wasting their lives.
New horrific video of the terrorist assault in New Orleans, have a look at how briskly that SOB was going when he focused individuals on the road pic.twitter.com/bYbGGSrxyr
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 1, 2025
At the very least fifteen individuals have been killed and dozens of others have been injured after US Military veteran Jabbar swerved round makeshift limitations and barreled into revellers in New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New 12 months’s Day. Police officers stated 42-year-old Jabbar might have had the assistance of others to hold out the assault, as three improvised pipe bombs have been discovered close by within the tourist-drawing French Quarter, together with one in Jabbar’s truck.
The assault passed off round 3:15 am close to the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Streets, a historic vacationer vacation spot recognized for its music and bars the place crowds have been celebrating the New 12 months. The suspect drove a white Ford F-150 electrical pickup into a gaggle of pedestrians, then exited and was killed in a shootout with police — two of whom have been wounded.
US President Joe Biden, describing the assault as “despicable,” stated that hours earlier than Jabbar had posted movies on-line “indicating that he was impressed by ISIS.”
Mr Biden stated that legislation enforcement officers have been additionally probing any attainable hyperlinks between the assault and the explosion later Wednesday of a Tesla Cybertruck outdoors a lodge partly owned by US President-elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas that killed one particular person.
“To this point, there’s nothing to report on that rating,” he stated, as police in Las Vegas stated they believed it was an “remoted” incident.
In accordance with the Pentagon, Jabbar had served within the Military as a human assets specialist and an IT specialist from 2007 to 2015, after which within the military reserve till 2020. He deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 till January 2010, a military spokesperson stated, including that he held the rank of Workers Sergeant on the finish of his service.