A driver deliberately struck a crowd with a pickup truck on New Year's Day in New Orleans' French Quarter, killing 10 people and injuring over 30. The driver was subsequently killed by police in a shootout.
Emergency personnel work the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans ’ Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans ’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing 10 people as he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police, authorities said.
More than 30 people were injured as the attack Wednesday turned festive Bourbon Street into macabre mayhem. The FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism. The driver was killed in a firefight with police following the attack around 3:15 a.m. in an area teeming with New Year’s revelers, the FBI said. Investigators recovered a handgun and an AR-style rifle after the shootout, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Investigators were also combing the French Quarter for potential explosive devices, another law enforcement official told the AP. The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan said officials were investigating at least one suspected improvised explosive device at the scene.New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the driver was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did.” “It was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he could,” Kirkpatrick said. After the vehicle stopped, the driver emerged and opened fire on responding officers, police said. Officers returned fire, killing the driver, police said. Two officers were wounded and are in stable condition, police said. They were in addition to 33 people injured in the vehicle attack. “When I got to work this morning, it was kind of pandemonium everywhere,” Derick Fleming, chief bellhop at a downtown hotel, told the AP. “There were a couple of bodies on the ground covered u
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