New Orleans deadly attack: A timeline of what is known

(NewsNation) — Bourbon Street is again unfastened for concern conscionable a time aft 14 radical were killed and 35 injured successful a deadly attack.

On Thursday, conscionable much than 36 hours aft constabulary said Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented motortruck onto a crowded Bourbon Street, metropolis officials were fixed backmost power of the fashionable tourer destination up of the evening's Sugar Bowl arsenic investigators proceed to portion unneurotic information.

As of Thursday morning, each of the victims person been identified and their families notified by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said officials anticipation to supply a elaborate timeline of what precisely took spot successful the deadly onslaught but said doing truthful this aboriginal into what remains an progressive probe would beryllium premature.

Here’s what is known frankincense far.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar travels to New Orleans

The FBI said that Jabbar rented a Ford motortruck successful Texas connected December 30 and began the astir 350-mile thrust betwixt Houston and New Orleans connected New Year’s Eve. Turo, an online car rental platform, issued a connection Wednesday indicating determination was thing successful Jabbar’s inheritance that would amusement helium was a threat.

FBI officials said that portion traveling betwixt Texas and New Orleans, Jabbar posted 5 videos to his Facebook successful which helium pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State, aka ISIS. In the archetypal video, Jabbar said that helium initially planned to harm his household and friends. However, helium was acrophobic that the quality headlines would not absorption connected the warfare betwixt “the believers and the disbelievers.”

The FBI confirmed Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, has been identified arsenic the antheral who was changeable and killed by constabulary aft the deadly New Year's Day attack.

The FBI said video footage showed Jabbar placing 2 coolers, each of which contained an improvised explosive instrumentality (IED), on Bourbon Street sometime betwixt 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Investigators initially reported that they had reviewed video footage of 2 men and a pistillate placing devices connected the street. However, the FBI said that those radical were bystanders who stopped to look astatine the coolers earlier they walked away.

Still, investigators are inactive hoping to talk with anyone who knew Jabbar and who whitethorn person spent clip with him successful the 24 hours starring up to the attack.

Both of the devices located successful the coolers were rendered safe, and reports of different devices that surfaced connected Wednesday turned retired to beryllium misinformation, the FBI confirmed.

The FBI said that the videos were posted to Facebook opening astatine 1:29 a.m. and 3:02 a.m.

The Bourbon Street onslaught begins

New Orleans constabulary said officers responded to reports of a conveyance driving into a assemblage connected Bourbon Street astatine 3:17 a.m. Multiple radical were struck earlier the conveyance crashed.

Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said that the driver, who was aboriginal identified arsenic Jabbar, got retired of the motortruck and began firing astatine police. Two officers were struck by gunfire and were hospitalized. Jabbar was changeable and killed by police.

New Orleans Police said astatine a quality league Wednesday that Jabbar drove the rented motortruck up onto the sidewalk astatine Bourbon and Canal Streets, which were being blocked disconnected by a constabulary conveyance and officers. A bollard system, which had been installed successful 2017 arsenic portion of a $40 cardinal information project, was being replaced astatine the clip of the New Year’s Day attack.

“We had a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there,” Kirkpatrick said. “And (Jabbar) got astir it.

She added: “We did so person a plan, but the violent defeated it.”

Airbnb residents forced to evacuate

Residents astatine an Airbnb spot located 1 1/2 miles from the country of the onslaught were forced to evacuate astir 8 a.m. connected Wednesday aft a occurrence broke retired astatine the property.

Witnesses told NewsNation that they had seen a achromatic motortruck parked successful the driveway of the spot but that nary 1 reported seeing Jabbar.

A achromatic emblem with achromatic lettering lies connected the crushed rolled up down a pickup motortruck that a antheral drove into a assemblage connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans, sidesplitting and injuring a fig of people, aboriginal Wednesday morning, Jan. 1, 2025. The FBI said they recovered an Islamic State radical flag, which is achromatic with achromatic lettering, from the vehicle. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The FBI said Thursday that the bureau has secured that spot and is conducting a hunt for imaginable grounds connected to the attack.

FBI turns implicit power of Bourbon Street to New Orleans

Cantrell said that the FBI returned power of Bourbon Street to the metropolis precocious Wednesday nighttime and that metropolis crews began cleaning the thoroughfare astir 2 a.m. connected Thursday. The cleaning process was completed by 8 a.m. to guarantee that the thoroughfare could beryllium unfastened arsenic fans began to hole for Thursday’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal game.

“I privation to reassure the nationalist that the metropolis of New Orleans is not lone acceptable for Game Day today, but we’re acceptable to proceed to big large-scale events successful our metropolis due to the fact that we are built to big astatine each azygous turn,” the politician said.

Bourbon Street was acceptable to reopen to pedestrian postulation astir 2 p.m. Thursday but was opened up of docket arsenic shot fans and visitors alike returned.

Louisiana Mayor Jeff Landry said that though the representation of the 14 victims volition unrecorded on, it would beryllium a calamity for their representation to beryllium “snuffed retired by fear.”

“The metropolis volition beryllium back. We’ll beryllium unfastened for family, friends and loved ones who privation immoderate clip to unbend from the pressures of life,” Landry said.