The FBI identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the perpetrator behind the New Year's attack in New Orleans. Jabbar, inspired by ISIS, posted videos online indicating his radical intentions before ramming his truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 people.
The perpetrator behind the deadly New Year's attack in New Orleans had posted videos online proclaiming his support for ISIS before he drove his truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street , killing at least 14, the FBI said Thursday.
As Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, travelled to Louisiana from his Texas home on New Year's Eve, he gave his social media followers a glimpse of his violent plan and radical thinking, according to Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division. In a series of Facebook videos posted shortly before the attack, according to Raia, Jabbar said he had originally planned to hurt his family and friends, but changed course when he grew concerned that news headlines would not focus on the “war between the believers and the disbelievers.” “This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act,” Raia said, adding that the suspect acted alone. “He was 100 percent inspired by ISIS.” Investigators believe Jabbar, an Army veteran, picked up his rented white Ford truck in Houston on December 30 and then headed for New Orleans the next evening. He posted five Facebook videos from about 1:30 a.m. to just after 3 a.m. on Tuesday, in which he says he joined ISIS before this summer, Raia said. Jabbar, who was fatally shot by police, also provided a will and testament, Raia said. Instead of targeting his family, Jabbar set his sights on historic Bourbon Street, though Raia said authorities do not yet fully understand why. The popular tourist area in the French Quarter, which is filled with bars and restaurants, was expected to be busy on New Year's Eve. Surveillance video shows Jabbar personally placing a cooler with an improvised explosive device on Bourbon Street and another one about two blocks away, Raia said. The devices did not detonate and were later rendered safe. “We’re confident at this point that he had no accomplices,” he said
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