FBI Says New Orleans Attacker Was an Army Veteran With an ISIS Flag
The FBI said Wednesday that the man who drove a truck into a crowd in New Orleans to kill as many people as he could was a Texas-born US Army veteran who was carrying an ISIS flag.
The early morning New Year’s Day attack in the French Quarter killed at least 15 people and injured more than 30. The attacker, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a firefight with police after the crash.
The FBI said in a statement that weapons, including potential Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), and an ISIS flag were found inside the vehicle. The FBI said other potential IEDS were found in the French Quarter, and Jabbar was likely not acting alone.
“We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible,” Althea Duncan, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI New Orleans field office, told reporters.
