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Wicked Blue

(7,761 posts)
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 03:53 PM Jan 2025

15 dead in New Orleans truck attack; suspect ID'd as US citizen, sources say

Source: MSN

A suspect who was "hell-bent" on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at a high rate of speed, leaving at least 15 dead and injuring dozens of others early Wednesday, city and federal officials said.

After mowing down numerous people over a three-block stretch on the famed thoroughfare while firing shots into the crowd, the suspect -- identified by sources as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42 -- allegedly got out of the truck wielding an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told ABC News. The FBI does not "believe Jabbar was solely responsible" for the incident, which is being investigated as an act of terror.

Officers returned fire, killing Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, sourcessaid. At least two police officers were shot and wounded, authorities said.

Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, told ABC News Wednesday afternoon that the number of people killed in the incident has risen from 10 to 15. He said another 25 people were hospitalized with injuries.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/15-dead-in-new-orleans-truck-attack-suspect-idd-as-us-citizen-sources-say/ar-AA1wNK0f



Death toll now 15, with 25 hospitalized with injuries.
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15 dead in New Orleans truck attack; suspect ID'd as US citizen, sources say (Original Post) Wicked Blue Jan 2025 OP
Lives cut short and damaged by insane violence Clouds Passing Jan 2025 #1
Fatalities increased by so many within hours. Frasier Balzov Jan 2025 #2
Three others planted pipe bombs. Mosby Jan 2025 #3
What? I don't understand. nt Ilsa Jan 2025 #4
. Mosby Jan 2025 #7
? Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #5
tucker? Kali Jan 2025 #8
Carlson. Mosby Jan 2025 #9
I figured that but Kali Jan 2025 #12
Guardian update from a couple of minutes before this post Igel Jan 2025 #10
Has the rifle been identified yet? Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #6
Everyone who died Southern_gent Jan 2025 #11
Wondering what kind of rifle was used Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #13
Here's the mofo Polybius Jan 2025 #14
Completely different "look" Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #15

Frasier Balzov

(4,182 posts)
2. Fatalities increased by so many within hours.
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jan 2025

That is a significant secondary shock from this attack.

Mosby

(18,317 posts)
3. Three others planted pipe bombs.
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 04:24 PM
Jan 2025

According to Twitter, it might be some bullshit started by tucker.

Igel

(36,665 posts)
10. Guardian update from a couple of minutes before this post
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 07:02 PM
Jan 2025

says, referring to CNN, the FBI is backtracking--their word--and "they no longer the people reportedly seen in the video were involved (sic), CNN said."

 

Southern_gent

(97 posts)
11. Everyone who died
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 08:37 PM
Jan 2025

Im pretty sure that I read that everyone who died was hit by the truck. The madman used the rifle on the police. Either way dead is dead.

 

Unladen Swallow

(491 posts)
15. Completely different "look"
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 12:28 PM
Jan 2025

than his professional pictures on the various social media/linked in type sites that folks have been posting....

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