A U.S. Army veteran, flying an ISIS flag, crashed his truck into a crowd celebrating New Year's in New Orleans, killing at least one person and injuring 30. Investigators are searching for the suspect's motive and potential links to other incidents. The attack took place in the historic French Quarter, disrupting New Year's festivities and prompting a massive police response.
Police officers sit on horses near the site where people were killed by a man driving a truck in an attack during New Year's celebrations, in New Orleans , Louisiana, U.S., January 1, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozInvestigators in New Orleans were searching on Thursday for what motivated a U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck to carry out the attack. The probe was focused on whether the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S.
citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, had help in planning the deadly attack on a city that will host the NFL Super Bowl next month. FBI officials said they were also looking for any links between the deadly attack and a separate incident on Wednesday in which a truck driver plowed into a crowd of people in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The New Orleans attack injured about 30 other people, including two police officers wounded by gunfire from the suspect, taking place a mere three hours into the New Year in the historic French Quarter. The victims included the mother of a 4-year-old who had just moved into a new apartment after getting a promotion at work, a New York financial employee and accomplished student-athlete who was visiting home for the holidays, and an 18-year-old aspiring nurse from Mississippi.“There were people everywhere,” Kimberly Strickland of Mobile, Alabama, said in an interview. “You just heard this squeal and the rev of the engine and this huge loud impact and then the people screaming and debris – just metal – the sound of crunching metal and bodies.”One New Year’s Day tradition – the classic college football known as the Sugar Bowl – was rescheduled for Thursday afternoon. Kickoff for the game between Notre Dame and Georgia was put off for nearly 24 hours while police swept parts of the city looking for possible explosive devices and converged on neighborhoods in search of clues.Police found weapons and a potential explosive device in the vehicle, while two potential explosive devices were found in the French Quarter and rendered safe, the FBI sai
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