Following a deadly attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill expressed her support for postponing the Sugar Bowl game for an additional day.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill weighed in on the postponement of the Sugar Bowl game after a deadly attack in New Orleans on Wednesday. Murrill told NBC News that she believes the game should be postponed to Friday. The game has been pushed back just one day to Thursday afternoon so far. 'Not my decision, but I would like to see it delayed at least another day. If they asked my opinion, I would tell them that,' Murrill said. 'I think that it was wise to delay it at least a day.
This is an active crime scene, and they just finished removing some of the bodies, and they still haven't removed all of them. I still think we need to wait an extra day.' Murrill added that she believes the community is 'safe,' regardless. The number of victims killed in the Bourbon Street attack has risen to 15, Fox News has learned. The game is currently set to be played less than 24 hours later than its initial start time, despite the attack. The Allstate Sugar Bowl organization announced that the game will start at 3 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) on Thursday. The game was initially set to kick off on 8:45 p.m. ET on Wednesday night, and earlier reports indicated the game would be postponed 24 hours. The Superdome is located just a mile away from the site of Wednesday morning’s deadly attack. Georgia and Notre Dame arrived in New Orleans on Sunday and were reportedly staying in hotels just blocks away from the crime scene. According to reports, both schools implemented a 'shelter in place' order for their teams. According to a statement from the FBI, a man driving a Ford pickup truck drove into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street at around 3:15 a.m. local time. The suspect, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, exchanged gunfire with local law enforcement before being pronounced dead at the scene
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