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(The Hill) – Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) and the FBI tract bureau successful New Orleans are acceptable to supply an update Thursday greeting connected the probe into the New Year's Day panic attack that near 15 dormant and dozens of others injured.
The briefing comes a time aft a driver, identified arsenic 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar from Texas, drove a rented pickup truck into a assemblage connected Bourbon Street. The incidental is being investigated arsenic a violent onslaught aft an Islamic State emblem was recovered successful the vehicle.
A subordinate of the FBI looks connected adjacent a bouquet of flowers tied to a fence, a artifact from Bourbon Street, aft astatine slightest 15 radical were killed during an onslaught aboriginal successful the greeting connected January 1, 2025 successful New Orleans, Louisiana. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)Little is currently known astir the victims different than what has been shared by household and friends.
The quality league is scheduled to statesman astatine 11 a.m. EST.
Police and FBI authorities antecedently said the operator steered astir a constabulary blockade and raced done a assemblage on Bourbon Street astir 3:15 a.m. Wednesday arsenic revelers gathered to observe the caller year. At slightest 15 radical were killed and astir 30 injured. Two constabulary officers wounded successful a shootout with the fishy were successful unchangeable condition.
Authorities besides recovered imaginable explosive devices successful the French Quarter, the FBI said. Surveillance footage showed 3 men and a pistillate placing 1 of aggregate improvised explosive devices, according to a Louisiana State Police quality bulletin obtained by The Associated Press.
Guns and tube bombs were recovered successful the suspect's vehicle, according to a Louisiana State Police quality bulletin obtained by The Associated Press. The devices were concealed wrong coolers and wired for distant detonation with a distant power that besides was recovered successful the vehicle, the bulletin said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
