10 dead, dozens injured after car plows into crowd in New Orleans: 'Horrific act of violence'

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Multiple radical are dormant aft a pickup motortruck plowed into a radical of radical connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans aboriginal connected New Year's Day, the New Orleans Police Department said.

Two officers were besides changeable during the incident. Sources person confirmed to Nexstar's WGNO that the fishy successful the transgression was changeable and killed by NOPD officers successful a instrumentality of gunfire.

Emergency services be the country aft a conveyance drove into a assemblage connected New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell called the incidental a "terrorist attack" during a property league connected Wednesday.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick besides stated that the incidental was intentional. Preliminary investigations revealed that the operator drove astir the barricades to behaviour the act, she said.

“He was hell-bent connected creating the carnage and the harm that helium did,” Kirkpatrick said. “It was precise intentional behavior. This antheral was trying to tally implicit arsenic galore radical arsenic helium could."

Additionally, Bourbon Street has been unopen down astatine this time, according to the NOPD. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigations counsel drivers and pedestrians to debar the surrounding country including Canal to St. Ann streets.

The FBI volition caput the probe arsenic they categorized this arsenic an “act of terrorism.” Agents are presently sweeping the French Quarter for explosive devices aft an “improvised explosive” was found.

The wide casualty incidental took spot astir 3:15 a.m. astatine the country of Bourbon and Iberville streets. As of Wednesday greeting astatine 6 a.m., the New Orleans Police Department reported 10 fatalities with perchance 30 others injured.

"A horrific enactment of unit took spot connected Bourbon Street earlier this morning. Please articulation Sharon and I successful praying for each the victims and archetypal responders connected scene," said Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. "I impulse each adjacent the country to debar the area."

The Associated Press contributed to this report. This is simply a processing story.