A suspect was killed after plowing a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, leaving several people dead and injured. Police are treating the incident as an act of terrorism, as the suspect was found to have an ISIS flag and multiple suspected explosive devices in his vehicle. The FBI is leading the investigation, looking into any possible associates of the suspect and his political or religious views.
suspect was killed,” said police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick. “This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could.” The man alsoat the scene. Video from CNN affiliate WDSU showed a law enforcement robot being used to examine the underside of the vehicle.less than a mile away. The annual college football game draws fans from all over the country, with the University of Georgia set to take on Notre Dame tonight.
“The guy in the pickup truck just punched the gas and mowed over the barricade and hit pedicab passengers. There were just bodies and the screams. I mean, you can’t unhear that. It was chaos and very, very scary,” she said.Once the truck was stopped, the scene turned into pandemonium, according to Stricklin. “It was just, like, debris and everything, and then people. It was unreal, just total chaos,” she said.
Tourism is critical to New Orleans’ economy, supporting an estimated 80,000 jobs. The New Year’s holiday, with college football’s Sugar Bowl, is among the busiest times of the year, although not as great as Mardi Gras. About 90% of the 26,000 hotel rooms within two miles of the football stadium were booked Tuesday night, according to Schulz.
“Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“I will continue to receive updates throughout the day, and I will have more to say as we have further information to share,” Biden wrote Wednesday. “In the meantime, my heart goes out to the victims and their families who were simply trying to celebrate the holiday. There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities.
Another man, Michael Guillory, who works at a nearby hotel, told WDSU he’s “never” seen those steel barricades put up in seven years., and various drunk driving crashes on Bourbon Street over the years. The barricades can be set in a flat or raised position to allow or prevent vehicles from the area.
“Those barricades were not up, period,” Jimmy Cothran, a New Orleans resident of 15 years, told CNN. “They had the flimsy orange ones that you could just push over with your finger. We actually thought it was kind of odd.”, in the wake of the 2016 truck ramming attack in Nice, France, and various drunk driving crashes on Bourbon Street over the years. The barricades can be set in a flat or raised position to allow or prevent vehicles from the area.
The FBI is sending resources to New Orleans, including evidence teams from Quantico, Virginia, which often happens in major incidents.Jimmy Cothran, a New Orleans resident of 15 years who was at the scene of Wednesday’s attack, described the harrowing aftermath he witnessed. Parsons and his friends had just arrived to Bourbon Street when he said he heard “the screech of tires.”“Real-life horror movie, everything the car is hitting, it’s getting thrown. It’s getting thrown up into the air and away and just under the car,” he described.
“In light of today’s development and as an added precaution, specialized units and additional personnel will be further deployed to the Downtown and Midtown areas to ensure the continued safety and security of residents and visitors,” APD said.Video captured the moment after a vehicle plowed through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the early morning hours of Wednesday.“It was horrible,” Birth-Mitchell told CNN. “I can’t believe it still.
Birth-Mitchell says he was able to skip the line to the club as he and his friends had wristbands on from earlier in the night. “If we would have been waiting outside, we would be dead maybe,” he added.The Department of Homeland Security is coordinating with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners in the wake of this morning’s incident in New Orleans, according to a Homeland Security official.
Throughout the morning, Biden also has been briefed by senior leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and his White House homeland security team.Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy ensured that New Orleans “is prepared” after a fatal New Years Eve attack in the city killed 10 people and injured 30 others, adding that he is “extremely confident” that the upcoming Sugar Bowl will be safe.
“This morning, an individual drove a car into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing a number of people and injuring dozens of others,” the FBI said in a statement. “The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased. The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism.
On this New Year’s Day, a city known for rowdy celebrations and upbeat second line parades spilling out into the streets is in an eerie state of shock and mourning. “This is an act of terror in the sense that it is terrorizing a city. Ten people are dead. The city is closed down. And the mayor may have been using … the term “terror” as a reflection and a description of what this kind of violence does to a city, regardless of the perpetrator’s intent,” Kayyem said.
“I’m asking the public to stay clear of eight blocks around Bourbon Street,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a news conference Wednesday morning. “There were improvised explosive devices that was found, and we are working on confirming if it’s a viable device or not,” said Alethea Duncan, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the FBI’s New Orleans office.
“Last night, we had over 300 officers out here, and because of the intentional mindset of this perpetrator – who went around our barricades in order to conduct this. He was hell bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” Kirkpatrick said.Investigators are certain that the person who drove a vehicle through a crowd in the French Quarter on Wednesday morning did not do so accidentally, the leader of the New Orleans Police Department said.
Crowds had gathered to attend an open-air concert and New Year’s countdown, with restaurants offering special deals and performances, according to the. LGBTQ parties featuring dancing and drag cabaret were taking place elsewhere on Bourbon Street, the heart of the city’s gay community – just blocks from where the incident took place.
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