Who is the New Orleans Terrorist driver?
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The FBI said the driver was 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas.
A flag representing the Islamic State group was found in the truck and the FBI is trying to determine if he was associated with any terrorist organizations, the agency said in a statement.
Police Commissioner Anne Kirkpatrick said the driver was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did” and he tried “to run over as many people as he could.”
Ten people were killed and 30 more were injured after a car plowed through New Orleans’ French Quarter on New Year’s Day.
One of the critically injured victims was identified as a student from the University of Georgia.
New Orleans attack: Who was Shamsud Din Jabbar?
According to the preliminary identification reports, Jabbar was a 42-year-old American citizen. Born and raised in Texas, he formerly served in the US Army, per The US Sun. Like many others he allegedly killed in the New Year’s Day horror slaughter, the suspect was shot down in a firefight with police, but not before he opened fire, resulting in two officers being wounded during the attack.
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Officials said they did not believe the suspect who rammed into New Year’s revelers was “solely responsible” for the attack, which killed at least 10 people and injured about 35 more, and were hunting for possible connections to terrorist organizations.
Jabbar—who died at the scene of the attack—is a U.S.-born citizen from Texas, FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Alethea Duncan said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
The vehicle Jabbar allegedly used in the attack was a Ford pickup truck “which appears to be rented,” the FBI said, adding that it was working to confirm how he “came into possession of the vehicle.”
The FBI also confirmed that an ISIS flag was found on the vehicle’s trailer hitch—something several news outlets had previously reported—and the agency said it was trying to determine the suspect’s “potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.”
During the press conference, Duncan said investigators do not believe Jabbar “was solely responsible,” and they are “aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates.”