The antheral down the New Orleans onslaught visited the metropolis astatine slightest doubly successful the months earlier the attack, FBI Special Agent successful Charge Lyonel Myrthil said successful an update connected Sunday.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was identified arsenic the antheral changeable and killed by constabulary aft the deadly New Year’s Day onslaught connected Bourbon Street, traveled to New Orleans successful precocious October and successful November.

During his archetypal trip, Jabar stayed astatine a rental location for astatine slightest 2 days opening connected Oct. 30, Myrthil said. While successful New Orleans, Jabbar utilized Meta glasses to grounds video of the French Quarter arsenic helium rode connected a motorcycle done the neighborhood.

The FBI showed video of Jabbar connected the travel with his glasses and encouraged the nationalist to interaction them if they saw oregon interacted with him connected that trip.

“Meta glasses look to look similar regular glasses, but they let the idiosyncratic to grounds photos and videos hands free. They besides let the idiosyncratic to perchance unrecorded watercourse their video,” Myrthil said astatine the briefing, adding that Jabbar was wearing the glasses during the onslaught but did not unrecorded watercourse footage from that day.

The 2nd travel to New Orleans, Myrthil said, took spot connected Nov. 10 but FBI officials “are inactive piecing unneurotic details of that trip.”

Jabbar besides traveled to Cairo, Egypt from June 22 to July 3 of 2023, and, a fewer days later, flew to Ontario, Canada connected July 10, returning to the U.S. connected July 13.

“Our agents are getting answers arsenic to wherever helium went, who helium met with, and however those trips whitethorn oregon whitethorn not necktie into his actions present successful New Orleans,” Myrthil said astatine the briefing.

Officials inactive accidental Jabbar, a U.S. national from Houston, acted unsocial erstwhile helium killed 14 radical aboriginal connected New Year’s Day.

“All investigative details and grounds that we person present inactive enactment Jabbar acted unsocial successful New Orleans. We person not seen immoderate indications of an accomplice successful the United States, but we are inactive looking into imaginable associates successful the U.S. and extracurricular our borders,” said FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia of the counterterrorism division.

“In immoderate analyzable coercion investigation, arsenic we uncover caller leads, person tips from the public, analyse physics devices, and interrogation witnesses, the accusation arsenic we cognize it evolves into a clearer representation and provides much answers,” helium continued. “We are overmuch further on than we were conscionable 2 days agone and proceed to make a much elaborate representation of precisely who Jabbar was.”