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

[DS2021]

No evidence of other accomplices so far

 

[DS2021]

400 tips recieved from the public

 

[Tiff23fr]

<snipping until can link>
CNN LIVE


Picked up truck Dec 30
5 Videos 1:29 AM to 3:02 AM
Pleaded guilty to DUI charges in 2015
Had ISIS flag in truck
Discussed plans to kill family, instead joins ISIS in series of videos

 

[CHEL]

Picked up truck in Houston on 30th. Drove to New Orleans on the 31st. Posted 5 videos on Facebook.

 

[arielilane]

@BrianEntin


FBI now says they don’t believe anyone except Shamsud-Din Jabbar is involved in New Orleans attack.Big change since yesterday.


11:30 AM · Jan 2, 2025

 

[DS2021]

3 phones recovered, 2 laptops

 

[arielilane]

@BrianEntin


2 IEDs were discovered in coolers near Bourbon Street.FBI says they are the only devices found.Surveillance video shows Jabbar placing the devices.


11:34 AM · Jan 2, 2025

 

[DS2021]

2 ieds found

Cross section of bourbon and orleans

One at an intersection 2 blocks away

 

[imstilla.grandma]

"war between the believers and nonbelievers" would not be the focus of motive if he had killed his family
Quote is correct. Paraphrased the rest
*found the quote. no wonder I've had trouble finding it. told y'all i dont listen well

In the first video, Jabbar said he originally intended to harm his family but said that wouldn't have illustrated the "war between the believers and the disbelievers".

In the videos he also proclaimed his allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Bourbon Street reopens as FBI says New Orleans attacker appeared to act alone

The famous party street prepares to welcome back patrons less than two days after a pickup truck rammed into a New Year's crowd, killing 14 and injuring dozens.

www.bbc.com

 

[arielilane]

@BrianEntin


FBI says no definitive link between attack in Las Vegas with cyber truck and New Orleans attack.


11:36 AM · Jan 2, 2025

 

[DS2021]

 

[justtrish]

Watching the press conference and they said they have video of him placing the 2 coolers that contained the confirmed IEDs. They are asking for anyone that was near those coolers to come forward in case they saw something. He said some people were seen looking at the coolers...

My gosh I am glad those things didn't go off. Imagine just wandering around and seeing a cooler.. lots of young partiers out and about and it seems a random cooler would be interesting.. nobody thinks an abandoned cooler is a bomb.. ugh It is so fortunate that those 2 devices didn't go off.

 

[CHEL]

I wonder when he placed the coolers.

 

[justtrish]

3 phones recovered, 2 laptops

I'm curious if those phones were going to detonate the IEDs.. who needs 3 phones? I see maybe 2 if you have a work phone and a personal cell.

 

[Luna20]

Video shows the truck driving onto the pavement to get around a police car before hitting people

New Orleans attacker acted alone, FBI now believes

The agency initially said it believed multiple people were involved the attack.

www.bbc.com

Borrowing your image to explain the barriers. A good one by the way. I’ve gotten a few PM asking about it.

This is the entrance from Canal Street to Bourbon Street. Any barriers placed there would be temporary, versus further down into the FQ where they are cemented into the ground.

During parades and other large crowd gatherings there are temporary metal barriers placed at every street butting up to Canal Street (both sides of Canal).

None of the temporary barriers that I have seen are adequate to stop an attack like this. They are lightweight and function as barricades for people who want to break the rules. It’s also easier for LE to spot them.

It used to be that you could go right up to the floats. People who were inebriated fell underneath the floats and died. As well as little children who break away from their parents. They no longer do that in this area because of those tragedies.

Hoping for more change to happen after this tragedy. This could be the perfect opportunity to force a much needed change. Funds just need to go to the right places.

Not sure if it was a congressman or perhaps the mayor who was involved in a scam in the last few years. Funds were spent on lavish personal expenses. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Democrat or a Republican, the corruption is far reaching.

 

[arielilane]

@SkyNews

'At this point there is no definitive link between the attack in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas' Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counter-terrorism division provides an update on their investigations

https://trib.al/UF3w3sp

https://twitter.com/x/status/1874859028850856321

The FBI says the New Orleans suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, posted five videos to an online platform "proclaiming his support for ISIS".In one video Jabbar said he initially planned to only hurt his family and friends.


https://trib.al/UF3w3sp

https://twitter.com/x/status/1874858566500094008

 

[IceIce9]

Moo...This event happened right in front of the hotel Georgia FB team, alumni and students were staying. They were evacuated for hours. (No link, several interviews on local channel 8 and CBS)

So sad.

I think it's a mistake to have the game today. I feel the teams are upset, parents, spectators, alumni and students attending the game are worried. They have to be this is a catastrophic event, mass casualty and the Governor thinks everyone should just go with the game.

I remember the Virginia Tech mass causality event. Students, parents and alumni were traumatized, severely upset, and classes were cancelled while we all mourned the loss.

Just my opinion and feeling great pain for the families

Louisiana AG wanted the game delayed until tomorrow but it is still scheduled for today.

Louisiana AG Wants Sugar Bowl Postponed Until Friday, Which Isn't Feasible

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill wants the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame postponed until January 3, but that's not really an option.

www.outkick.com

Unfortunately, while football pales in comparison to the loss of human life, there is still a ton of money tied up in the College Football Playoff. If the Sugar Bowl were pushed to Friday, the CFP would have to consider moving the Orange Bowl back so that the winner didn't have such a short turnaround.

That would be particularly detrimental for Georgia, which last played in the SEC Championship on December 7. They would go from not playing a game in nearly a month to two games in six days.

What's already become a logistical nightmare will only become a bigger one by upsetting the schedule again.

 

[bestill]

This presser is sounding defensive, imo.

 

[Furore]

Does anyone else find it statistically improbable that Jabbar and the Vegas car bomber worked at the same air base and weren’t linked? I can’t imagine this is common…disturbing if statistically it is so common random coincidence occurs.

 

[justtrish]

It makes sense that initially when they said others were involved.. 3 men and 1 woman because the cameras caught those people picking up the cooler/s and looking at them because it was sitting there abandoned. They were being overly careful to warn people yesterday in case those people were involved, but after talking to them, they were just out there enjoying the night and saw the cooler and looked in it or whatever.. picked it up.

Coolers were planted a couple hours before.. they just said after midnight and if he recalls correctly closer to 1am..