LA - Vehicle drives through New Year's crowd - Multiple fatalities reported - Bourbon Street New Orleans - January 1 2025

[Warwick7]

Sounds it with the fire etc, he can’t have started the blaze, he has others helping him

https://twitter.com/x/status/1874533622931411247

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Officials in New Orleans said they were seeking possible connections between terrorist organizations and the 42-year-old Texas man who rammed a pickup into celebrating crowds on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The attack killed at least 10 people and injured about 35 others. The Sugar Bowl, which was scheduled for this evening in the city, was postponed.

The suspect, a U.S. Army veteran who died in a shootout with police officers, was identified by the F.B.I. as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a U.S. citizen. The truck carried an Islamic State flag, weapons and a “potential” improvised explosive, the agency said, adding that other potential bombs were also found in the French Quarter.

New Orleans Attacker Was ‘Inspired’ by ISIS, Biden Says

Investigators who briefed President Biden told him that the suspect had posted videos indicating that he had a “desire to kill.” At least 15 people died in the attack.

www.nytimes.com

 

[red carpet fiber]

started weeks ago

what makes you think this?

 

[MassGuy]

Sounds it with the fire etc, he can’t have started the blaze, he has others helping him

I don’t necessarily think that is indicative of help, although they obviously have evidence that he did.

It could have been an explosive device that he didn’t take with him that went off.

 

[CuriousWhiskers]

Some victims identified:

Former STM football player Tiger Bech killed in New Orleans attack

Bech, 27, was kept on life support until his family could arrive and died late Wednesday morning.

www.theadvocate.com

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article297848603.html

Rest in peace

 

[Marysmith]

Some victims identified:

Former STM football player Tiger Bech killed in New Orleans attack

Bech, 27, was kept on life support until his family could arrive and died late Wednesday morning.

www.theadvocate.com

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article297848603.html

Rest in peace

What a waste. This is so sad.

 

[iamshadow21]

SBM. Is this normal? Why can't the dead be taken from the crime scene so many hours after the event?

It is a very complex crime scene stretching over several blocks. It will have to be processed. Every single victim and everything around them will have to be processed and documented and the coroner will have to sign off on every single body before they can be moved.

I'm sure it seems horrendous to many people, but these individuals are deceased, beyond pain or rescue, and the best way to help and respect them right now is for them to be left in place, so that everything is done right.

The perpetrator in this is deceased, but if he did have conspirators, and they are captured living, then they will be held responsible for every single one of them. If they end up in court, every minute taken now to process the evidence and crime scene meticulously is going to matter. Defense attorneys are going to look for any loophole to throw out evidence and mitigate the impact on their clients.

So, as callous as it seems, those people need to stay there in the street until everything possible is done, and done correctly. And only then do they go to the medical examiner's location for autopsy, and after that, to their families.

MOO

 

[BrianJohnson]

I don’t necessarily think that is indicative of help, although they obviously have evidence that he did.

It could have been an explosive device that he didn’t take with him that went off.

He hired the car in Texas and drove all the way to New Orleans, if he was a lone wolf there were plenty of celebrations he could have targeted in Texas. It no coincidence to me that the football game on around same time, distraction technique he target revellers while others target the game, right to postpone it

 

[Regal Beagle]

what makes you think this?

The amount of planning that went into it??? I curious about the meaning of that statement too.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[Chimera]

@BrianEntin


Sugar Bowl postponed until Thursday because of New Orleans terror attack.


2:18 PM · Jan 1, 2025

Going to proceed with the game tomorrow ?
Idk about that.
Esp. if they don't think he acted alone !!!!!
Going to be a big crowd there and sicko killers like to target areas of high population.
Just my .02.

 

[CuriousWhiskers]

@brianentin on X:
"Other potential IEDs have also been located in the French Quarter."

 

[kuromiiiilove]

‘No Terrorist to Me’: Relatives and Friends Saw Few Signs Before Attack

The man identified as the suspect in the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans served in the U.S. military, worked at Deloitte and grew increasingly devout.

www.nytimes.com

Law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said that Mr. Jabbar had been out of the military for years.

Criminal records in Texas show that Mr. Jabbar had previously been charged with minor infractions — once in 2002 for a misdemeanor theft and once in 2005 for driving with an invalid license.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1802037353924727

Gov. Jeff Landry mobilizes National Guard to New Orleans after Bourbon Street attack

The force will assist local law enforcement, state police and the FBI, the governor said.

www.nola.com

 

[arielilane]

@kithanleytv


In an official release, the FBI says:“An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject's potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle.“



2:38 PM · Jan 1, 2025

 

[sds71]

Investigators found pipe bombs concealed within coolers, according to an law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by @AP
The devices were wired for remote detonation and a corresponding remote control was discovered inside the suspect’s truck.

Islamic State-inspired driver expressed desire to kill before deadly New Orleans rampage, Biden says

A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group has wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration. He killed 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police. The FBI says it is...

apnews.com

 

[MassGuy]

Investigators found pipe bombs concealed within coolers, according to an law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by @AP
The devices were wired for remote detonation and a corresponding remote control was discovered inside the suspect’s truck.

Islamic State-inspired driver expressed desire to kill before deadly New Orleans rampage, Biden says

A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group has wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration. He killed 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police. The FBI says it is...

apnews.com

Wow. I’d love to know where exactly this coolers were placed. Concerning that they weren’t discovered sooner too.

 

[Chimera]

He hired the car in Texas and drove all the way to New Orleans, if he was a lone wolf there were plenty of celebrations he could have targeted in Texas. It no coincidence to me that the football game on around same time, distraction technique he target revellers while others target the game, right to postpone it

Curious if the perp had attended the celebration in the past, that he now targeted, and knew the layout ?
Omo.

 

[OldCop]

There is an individual with the same name as the suspect who now lives in TX that had past addresses in Fayetteville, NC. MsM reports he had served in the US Army.

Fort Bragg

www.soc.mil

Fort Bragg is now known as Fort Liberty

 

[arielilane]

@BrianEntin


“We had a plan, but the terrorist defeated it,” New Orleans Police Chief says when questioned about terrorist being able to drive onto Bourbon Street.


2:43 PM · Jan 1, 2025