A truck driver inspired by ISIS rammed into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 people. The FBI is investigating the attack as a terrorist act.
A U.S. Army veteran drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans , killing 15 people. The president said the driver had posted videos to social media hours before the attack saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressing a desire to kill. The FBI is investigating the early Wednesday’s attack as a terrorist act and does not believe he acted alone.
Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle, along with other explosive devices elsewhere in the city’s famed French Quarter. President Joe Biden said Wednesday evening that the FBI found the videos the driver posted to social media. He called the attack a “despicable” and “heinous act.” The rampage turned festive Bourbon Street into a macabre scene of maimed victims, bloodied bodies and pedestrians fleeing for safety inside nightclubs and restaurants. In addition to the dead, dozens of people were hurt. A college football playoff game at the nearby Superdome was postponed until Thursday. Zion Parsons, 18, of Gulfport, Mississippi, said he saw the truck “barreling through, throwing people like in a movie scene, throwing people into the air.” “Bodies, bodies all up and down the street, everybody screaming and hollering,” said Parsons, whose friend Nikyra Dedeaux was among the people killed. “This is not just an act of terrorism. This is evil,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said. The attack is the latest example of a vehicle being used as a weapon to carry out mass violence and the deadliest IS-inspired assault on U.S. soil in years. The driver “defeated” safety measures in place to protect pedestrians, Kirkpatrick said, and was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did
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