Bomb-making materials linked to the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans were recovered by the FBI at the assailant’s Texas home.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, from Houston, killed 14 people and injured 35 others after ramming a truck into a crowd of revellers on Bourbon Street before being shot dead by police on Wednesday morning.
Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran who claimed he joined ISIS in the summer, placed explosive devices in the area before the attack, sources told ABC News. After executing a search warrant at his Greenspoint home, federal agents uncovered bomb-making materials including “precursor chemicals”.
It comes as authorities were informed of several videos posted online by Jabbar, proclaiming his support for an Islamic State jihadist group. In one video, Jabbar explains he originally planned to hurt his friends and family, but was concerned the media would not focus on the “war between believers and the disbelievers,” FBI agent Christopher Raia said in a news conference on Thursday.
Bourbon Street was reopened on Thursday afternoon ahead of the Sugar Bowl, after New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the FBI were able to clear the street and identify victims.
Key Points
- Bomb-making materials recovered from Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s Texas home: report
- Jabbar posted videos about joining ISIS hours before Bourbon Street attack: FBI
- New Orleans attacker acted alone, according to officials
- ‘No definitive link’ between Las Vegas truck explosion and NOLA attack, FBI says
Jabbar shared ‘positive, peaceful’ Facebook posts about Islam, friend says
10:50
James Liddell
Chris Pousson, Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s high school friend, said that the New Orleans attacker frequently posted about his Islamic faith on Facebook which was “always positive”.
“It was always positive – peace be with you, uplifting type of stuff,” Pousson told NBC News. “Nothing that he posted online that I saw was negative.”
He added that he was caught by surprise after learning of the attack, and “didn’t see this coming from a mile away”.
Jabbar told neighbor he was moving to Louisiana – then his true intentions became clear
10:20
James Liddell
Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s Houston, Texas, neighbor said the New Orleans attacker told him he was moving to Louisiana on New Year’s Eve morning.
The neighbor, who remains anonymous, told NBC News that he offered to help Jabbar after he saw him loading a white truck outside his property.
According to the Greenspoint resident, Jabbar said he was moving to Louisiana because “he got a job over there”.
The neighbor learned of Jabbar’s true intentions some time on New Year’s Day.
How much of a threat does ISIS pose to U.S.?
09:50
Josh Marcus
The New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed at least 14 people and injured 30 more has reignited fears about the terror threat posed by ISIS in the U.S. following years of relative quiet.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran, has been named by authorities as the suspect. He carried an ISIS flag on the vehicle used to mow down pedestrians.
Addressing the nation following the attack, President Joe Biden said Jabbar posted videos to social media “indicating he was inspired by ISIS, expressing a desire to kill.”
But how much of a threat does the extremist Islamist militant group pose to Americans today?
Richard Hall reports.
Bomb-making materials recovered from Shamsud Din Jabbar’s home: report
09:19
James Liddell
Bomb-making materials linked to the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans were recovered by the FBI at Shamsud Din Jabbar’s Houston, Texas, home.
Jabbar, a US citizen and Army veteran who claimed he joined ISIS in the summer, placed explosive devices in the area before the attack, sources told ABC News.
After executing a search warrant at his Greenspoint home, federal agents uncovered bomb-making materials including “precursor chemicals”.
‘Fake news’ immigrant lie spreads about New Orleans attack
09:00
Josh Marcus
Frustrated CNN news host Jim Acosta accused Donald Trump himself Thursday of peddling “fake news” with his repeated lie that the deadly New Orleans truck attacker was an immigrant.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, who was fatally shot by police, was a born-in-the-U.S.A. American citizen and a military veteran.
Yet after Jabbar drove a truck through a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing at least 14 people in what the FBI has called an act of terrorism, Trump crowed: “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true” - which in fact didn’t turn out to be true.
“Here he goes again,” Acosta said of the president-elect amid a heated interview with Neil Chatterjee, who was Trump’s commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in his last administration. “He talks about everybody else being fake news, and he’s the one peddling fake news.”
Mary Papenfuss has the story.
Feds warned cities about potential ‘lone wolf’ ramming attacks during the holidays
07:59
Josh Marcus
Law enforcement agencies were warned ahead of the holidays about potential lone offenders using vehicle ramming to attack people, weeks before a terrorist drove into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center sent a joint bulletin on December 6 to federal, state and local law enforcement informing them of the potential threat, according to the bulletin obtained by CNN.
The Independent has reached out to the department for comment.
A follow-up “critical incident note” was sent after a ramming attack at a German Christmas market on December 20 left five people dead and hundreds of others injured.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Did New Orleans fail to secure area of truck attack?
07:00
Josh Marcus
New Orleans officials are promising the city is safe as they prepare for today’s Sugar Bowl and the Super Bowl next month. But planning for those events might have allowed a suspected terrorist to rampage through the city’s most popular area.
A series of barricades designed to prevent cars from driving down parts of Bourbon Street had been removed and were not in place when an attacker sped into the French Quarter and killed at least 14 people in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
Those “bollards” — installed as part of a years-long security plan for the tourist-heavy neighborhood — were intended to block that exact type of attack from happening.
But they were in the middle of being replaced in time for the city to host February’s Super Bowl LIX, which falls in the middle of a busy Carnival season calendar leading up to Mardi Gras day on March 4.
Alex Woodward reports.
‘My anxiety is at an all-time high’: Workers return to Bourbon Street
06:00
Josh Marcus
Less than 36 hours after a massacre at the gateway to the French Quarter, New Orleans officials reopened Bourbon Street, now heavily guarded with military police, fresh barricades and 14 roses to mark the 14 people who were killed in what law enforcement officials have labeled an act of terror.
Authorities removed the remaining bodies and swept blood from the sidewalks and streets beginning at 2 a.m. Thursday. Deliveries to the street’s bars and restaurants resumed a few hours later.
Several blocks of Bourbon and surrounding streets had been blocked off, businesses were closed and residents living in the footprint of an active crime scene were navigating police tape and barricades after a driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd shortly after 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Thousands of workers — still checking on the safety of friends and colleagues — are now returning to the bars, restaurants, music venues, hotels, gift shops and other businesses that keep the city’s tourism economy running.
Feds unveil timeline of New Orleans terror suspect’s movements leading up to deadly attack
05:00
Josh Marcus
The FBI has shared the movements of suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar in the final days and hours leading up to his deadly New Orleans attack early New Year’s Day.
New details have emerged about how Jabbar, 42, traveled from his home in Houston, Texas, to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve in a rented pickup truck.
He later rammed it into a crowd on bustling Bourbon Street, filled with revelers enjoying the celebrations at approximately 3:15 a.m. on January 1.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Christopher Raia, the FBI’s deputy assistant director of its counter-terrorism division, said investigators are reviewing video footage of Jabbar recorded in the hours before the attack where he “proclaimed his support for ISIS.”
Rhian Lubin reports.
Famed New Orleans tavern raising money for victims of truck attack
04:00
Josh Marcus
Jewel of the South, a James Beard Award-winning tavern in the French Quarter, is raising money on Thursday for the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund, the restaurant announced.
The fund, established by the Greater New Orleans Foundation, will go to support the families of those killed and injured in the Wednesday attack.
Notre Dame wins Sugar Bowl postponed by New Orleans attack
03:00
Josh Marcus
The University of Notre Dame has won the 2025 Sugar Bowl, the college football quarterfinal that was delayed a day after Wednesday’s truck attack in New Orleans.
Security preparations were increased ahead of Thursday’s matchup in the city’s Caesars Superdome, which went off without incident.
IRISH WIN THE 2025 SUGAR BOWL#GoIrish pic.twitter.com/2T2FPvatWF
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) January 3, 2025
Louisiana Lt. Gov. calls New Orleans mayor ‘an embarassment'
02:00
Josh Marcus
Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser sharply criticized New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell after Wednesday’s truck attack.
Nungesser, a Republican, told local media the Democrat’s administration was only offering “excuses” after the attack.
“I’ve held my tongue long enough,” Nungesser said. “Her lack of leadership is an embarrassment.”
Here’s more on how local officials may have dropped the ball on security planning in the city’s most iconic neighborhood.
Biden may visit Bourbon Street
01:40
Josh Marcus
Joe Biden may visit Bourbon Street in the coming days, the site of Wednesday’s horrific New Orleans truck terror attack.
"I'm going to try," Biden tells reporters at White House when asked if he plans to visit New Orleans after the pickup truck attack on Bourbon Street.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 2, 2025
FBI photos show New Orleans attacker just before killings
01:20
Josh Marcus
Photos obtained by the FBI show New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar walking near Bourbon Street an hour before he drove a truck through a crowd of pedestrians there in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, killing 14.
The photos also show a cooler authorities believe Jabbar planned to use as an explosive device, which never detonated.
New Orleans police chief ‘disagrees’ that department failed to protect Bourbon Street
01:00
Josh Marcus
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick had a sharp reponse to a reporter on Thursday who questioned if the department had failed to secure Bourbon Street ahead of the truck attack that killed 14.
Watch as the New Orleans police chief is challenged by a Sky News correspondent.@jamesmatthewsky asked New Orleans superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, if their security plan was appropriate.https://t.co/z59nJj3UPW pic.twitter.com/sD4hTSWVZk
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 2, 2025
“That’s not correct. We would disagree with that,” Kirkpatrick said. “I take exception with that and I do not agree with that.”
“If you were experienced with terrorism, you would not be asking that question,” she added.
The reporter who asked the question, James Matthew of Sky News, in fact is a seasoned reporter who won a BAFTA for his coverage of the 2007 Glasgow Airport terror attack, which also involved a vehicle.
For more details on whether police could’ve done more to cordon off the area where the attack took place, read Alex Woodward.
Former commander describes experience with Shamsud-Din Jabbar
00:40
Josh Marcus
The former Army commander of New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar says he was shocked to learn his old colleague carried out a mass killing.
Rich Groen, who said he commanded Jabbar in Afghanistan, described the Texas man as a “great Soldier, someone who showed discipline and dedication” who “worked quietly and professionally” when they were acquainted.
“To think that the same individual who once embodied quiet professionalism could harbor so much hate, leading to such unspeakable atrocities, is incomprehensible and heartbreaking,” Groen wrote on X. “This transformation is a stark reminder of the dangers of unchecked anger, isolation, and hate.”
‘There is still evil in this world’: Tim Tebow speaks about New Orleans attack at Sugar Bowl
00:20
Josh Marcus
Tim Tebow shared an emotional message on Thursday about the New Orleans truck attack, as the former NFL quarterback spoke during a broadcast of the Sugar Bowl in the same city the following day.
Tebow said the attack was a reminder that there is “still evil in this world,” but that he was heartened to see people coming together after the violence.
Grieving over the precious lives lost before the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Grateful for the bravery of those doing good and bringing light to darkness ❤️ pic.twitter.com/TkOkzimH40
— Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) January 2, 2025
How common are terror attacks planned by veterans?
00:00
Josh Marcus
While information is still evolving about the recent New Orleans attack and Las Vegas truck explosion, the fact that individuals linked to both incidents were U.S. military veterans is raising questions about the extent of violent extremism within the ranks of the military.
According to data from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, individuals with military backgrounds plotted 144 mass casualty terror attacks between 1990 and 2022, representing 25 percent of all terror plotters in the U.S. during that period.
“The rate of military service in the mass casualty offender population is more than three times that of military service in the general adult population, which is estimated at 8 percent,” according to START.
Republicans keep trying to make New Orleans attack about Biden's border
Thursday 2 January 2025 23:40
Josh Marcus
Top Republicans keep insinuating the Biden administration’s border policy had something to do with the New Orleans truck attack over New Year’s, even though the attacker was a U.S. citizen and former Army servicemember.
In the early stages after the attack, Donald Trump quickly suggested the incident was tied to immigration, even before the suspect’s full identity was known.
Today, figures like House Speaker Mike Johnson have continued this line of argument.
He suggested on Fox News that the New Orleans attack emphasized the risk of immigrants setting up terror cells inside the U.S., despite officials saying available evidence suggests the truck attacker acted alone.
Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox & Friends suggests Biden's "wide open border" played a role in the New Orleans attack. Again, the perpetrator was born in Texas and served in the US military. pic.twitter.com/UoK2uvYdJ0
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2025
PHOTOS: Memorials, music, and police fill newly reopened Bourbon Street
Thursday 2 January 2025 23:20
Josh Marcus
Fire in French Quarter dies down
Thursday 2 January 2025 23:00
Josh Marcus
We’re getting a few more details about the fire that broke out today in the French Quarter.
The property was vacant, according to the New Orleans Fire Department, and locals believe homeless people may have triggered the blaze.
Smoke from the fire was dying down throughout the day, Fox 8 Nola reports.
#UPDATE
— Andrés Fuentes (@news_fuentes) January 2, 2025
NOFD says the property is vacant and smoke is starting to die down as firefighters continue their work.
Neighbors tell me they believe homeless people might have started the fire.@FOX8NOLA pic.twitter.com/bvZkbGAmDP
Trump border czar has ‘gut feeling’ New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks connected
Thursday 2 January 2025 22:40
Josh Marcus
Donald Trump’s incoming border czar Tom Homan told Fox News on Thursday that he had a “gut feeling” that the explosion of a Cybertruck in Las Vegas was connected to the deadly terror attack in New Orleans, despite the FBI saying there’s “no definitive link.”
Pressed by Fox News anchor Sandra Smith on whether he was “privy” to any information proving such a link, Homan acknowledged he was not before saying he felt there were just “too many coincidences” between the two incidents.
Additionally, Homan repeatedly tied the “threats at the southern border” to the two deadly events, claiming that they showed the United States “needs to secure the border” because it’s in “grave danger” — even though both of the suspects were American-born citizens who served in the military.
During a press conference on Thursday, Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters that the man who died in the Cybertruck explosion outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas was Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old U.S. Special Forces soldier. According to a family member, Livelsberger was a “100 percent patriot” who loved Trump.
Justin Baragona reports.
MAGA trolls outraged by FBI agent’s nose piercing during New Orleans briefing
Thursday 2 January 2025 22:20
Josh Marcus
Following a press conference about the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans, MAGA diehards expressed their outrage online, not with the tragedy itself – but with the jewelry of a leading FBI investigator.
Multiple posts online called out the “nose ring” worn by Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan, who provided initial updates on the incident – in which 14 innocent people were killed – and took questions from the press on Wednesday.
During a briefing, Duncan wore a small stud in her nose.
Mike Bedigan has the details.
Did New Orleans officials fail to secure site of truck attack?
Thursday 2 January 2025 22:00
Josh Marcus
New Orleans officials are promising the city is safe as they prepare for today’s Sugar Bowl and the Super Bowl next month. But planning for those events might have allowed a suspected terrorist to rampage through the city’s most popular area.
A series of barricades designed to prevent cars from driving down parts of Bourbon Street had been removed and were not in place when an attacker sped into the French Quarter and killed at least 14 people in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
Those “bollards” — installed as part of a years-long security plan for the tourist-heavy neighborhood — were intended to block that exact type of attack from happening.
But they were in the middle of being replaced in time for the city to host February’s Super Bowl LIX, which falls in the middle of a busy Carnival season calendar leading up to Mardi Gras day on March 4.
Alex Woodward has the details.
FBI seizes phones, laptops from New Orleans Airbnb
Thursday 2 January 2025 21:40
Josh Marcus
Investigators have seized materials from a New Orleans Airbnb as part of their investigation into the New Year’s Day truck attack.
The FBI confiscated three phones and two laptops believed to belong to attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar from an Airbnb in the St. Roch neighborhood, WDSU reports.
The property was the site of a recent fire, which investigators are scrutinizing for any links to the attack.
Fans observe moment of silence before Sugar Bowl kickoff in New Orleans
Thursday 2 January 2025 21:23
Josh Marcus
Moment of silence for the French Quarter victims ahead of the Sugar Bowl. pic.twitter.com/XNDgLBPOAB
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) January 2, 2025
Biden offering ‘every resource available’ to aid New Orleans investigation
Thursday 2 January 2025 21:20
Josh Marcus
President Biden is continuing to monitor the investigation into the New Orleans attack and has directed federal officials to assist their local counterparts in whatever way possible.
Here’s an update from the White House as it monitors two high-profile investigations, one in Louisana and the other in Las Vegas:
This afternoon, President Biden convened a meeting with Vice President Harris and his homeland security team to discuss the latest developments in the investigation into the terrorist attack in New Orleans. Law enforcement also provided the President with an update on the investigation into the truck explosion in Las Vegas. The President directed his team to continue to make every resource available to federal, state, and local law enforcement so they can complete their investigations as quickly as possible.Participants in the briefing included Attorney General Garland, DHS Secretary Mayorkas, DoD Secretary Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Brown, Deputy FBI Director Abbate, DNI Haines, NCTC Acting Director Holmgren, Deputy Director of the CIA Cohen, as well as Chief of Staff Zients, Counselor to the President Ricchetti, National Security Advisor Sullivan and Homeland Security Advisor Sherwood-Randall.
Fire reported in French Quarter
Thursday 2 January 2025 21:19
Josh Marcus
Officials are responding to a fire in New Orleans’s French Quarter, the neighborhood where yesterday’s truck attack took place.
It’s unclear what caused the fire to start.
#BREAKING
— Andrés Fuentes (@news_fuentes) January 2, 2025
NOFD responding to a growing fire at a property along Chartes St. in the French Quarter.
No word on what might have started the fire.
A helicopter is hovering around the area.@FOX8NOLA pic.twitter.com/qM2B2DjNJX
Workers torn after Bourbon Street reopens hours after blood stained the sidewalk: ‘My anxiety is at an all-time high’
Thursday 2 January 2025 21:17
Josh Marcus
Less than 36 hours after a massacre at the gateway to the French Quarter, New Orleans officials reopened Bourbon Street, now heavily guarded with military police, fresh barricades and 14 roses to mark the 14 people who were killed in what law enforcement officials have labeled an act of terror.
Authorities removed the remaining bodies and swept blood from the sidewalks and streets beginning at 2 a.m. Thursday. Deliveries to the street’s bars and restaurants resumed a few hours later.
Several blocks of Bourbon and surrounding streets had been blocked off, businesses were closed and residents living in the footprint of an active crime scene were navigating police tape and barricades after a driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd shortly after 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Thousands of workers — still checking on the safety of friends and colleagues — are now returning to the bars, restaurants, music venues, hotels, gift shops and other businesses that keep the city’s tourism economy running.
More details in our full story.
FBI concludes search of Texas home linked to Jabbar
Thursday 2 January 2025 21:00
Josh Marcus
The FBI has finished searching a Harris County, Texas, home believed to be the residence of New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the agency’s Houston office announced on Thursday.
“At this time, there is no threat to residents in that area,” the office said in a statement on X. “Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, we are unable to provide any details.”
Neighbors describe New Orleans attacker as ‘very quiet person’
Thursday 2 January 2025 20:40
Josh Marcus
Neighbors of New Orleans truck attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar say they had little reason to believe he was an extremist.
“Calm, collected, don’t talk much, very quiet person, don’t interrupt, us we don’t interrupt him,” a neighbor in the Houston area told KHOU11 of Jabbar.
Authorities have painted a different picture of the man, who allegedly posted on social media about his allegiance to ISIS and intention to wage religious violence.
‘We can’t believe he’s alive'
Thursday 2 January 2025 20:20
Josh Marcus
A Pennsylvania man in a wheelchair hit in the New Orleans truck attack endured a harrowing night of medical treatment but appears to be improving, his family says.
Jeremi Sensky, 51, was ejected from his chair in the attack and left with bruises to the face and head, plus two broken legs.
After 10 hours of surgery, doctors were able to remove Sensky from a ventilator.
“We thought he was dead,” his daughter, Heaven Sensky-Kirsch, told The Asssociated Press. “We can’t believe he’s alive.”
‘New Orleans is very secure’: LA Attorney General
Thursday 2 January 2025 19:59
Josh Marcus
Louisiana officials are trying to reassure members of the public that New Orleans is safe and marquee events like the Sugar Bowl can go forward after Wednesday’s truck attack.
“The @SugarBowlNola needed to go forward,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill wrote on X. “This was always a game-time decision. I believe New Orleans is very secure. We can honor the lives that were lost by not bowing down to fear brought on by a cowardly terrorist attack.”
The @SugarBowlNola needed to go forward. This was always a game-time decision. I believe New Orleans is very secure. We can honor the lives that were lost by not bowing down to fear brought on by a cowardly terrorist attack.
— Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) January 2, 2025
WATCH: New Orleans hosts Sugar Bowl after deadly truck attack
Thursday 2 January 2025 19:26
Josh Marcus
Too soon to rule out or confirm link between New Orleans and Vegas attacks
Thursday 2 January 2025 19:23
Josh Marcus
Las Vegas police said on Thursday they don’t have enough information to confirm or rule out a possible link between the explosion outside a Trump hotel in Vegas on Wednesday and the New Orleans truck attack that took place earlier that day.
The incidents have passing similarities—the people of interest in both incidents served in the U.S. military, including at the same base, and both used rented trucks—but officials haven’t found any definitive link to suggest a wider, coordinated plot.
For now, officials are urging people not to reach conclusions until more investigative work can be done.
“If these turned out to be simply similarities, very strange similarities to have,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said. “We’re not prepared to rule in or rule out anything at this point. There’s lots more for us to do in this investigation. We haven’t even gotten into the phones and the computers.”
Fans still flocking to Sugar Bowl, despite New Orleans attack
Thursday 2 January 2025 19:20
Josh Marcus
The New Orleans truck attack hasn’t stopped football fans from assembling at the Caesars Superdome for the college football Sugar Bowl.
The game, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed to today.
Officials have installed heightened security measures around the stadium, including scores of police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs.
Fan Fest is underway at the Sugar Bowl. pic.twitter.com/D1ATsNsAiH
— Jack Nolan (@NDJackNolan) January 2, 2025
‘No record’ New Orleans attacker overlapped with Las Vegas person of interest in Afghanistan
Thursday 2 January 2025 19:15
Josh Marcus
Officials are investigating whether there’s any possible link between the New Orleans truck attack early on Wednesday and an explosion set off in a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas later that day.
So far, officials haven’t found any clear link between the two incidents, and Las Vegas officials added further reason for scrutiny on Thursday.
New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Vegas person of interest Matthew Alan Livelsberger both served in the U.S. military Afghanistan in 2009 and were stationed at one point at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), North Carolina.
However, there’s no evidence Jabbar and Livelsberger overlapped overseas or at the North Carolina base, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a Thursday press conference.
“It’s a very large military base,” McMahill said. “We have no record they served in the same unit, or even the same years at Fort Bragg.”
FBI digging through social media for clues on Jabbar
Thursday 2 January 2025 19:00
Josh Marcus
Emerging information suggests Shamsud-Din Jabbar was motivated by religious fanaticism.
Officials are now combing through social media to understand more about what drove the Texas man to ram a group of civilians in New Orleans with his truck.
“So what I can tell you right now is that he was 100 percent inspired by ISIS, and so we’re digging, we’re digging through more of the social media, more interviews, working with some of our other partners to ascertain a little bit more,” FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said on Wednesday.
WATCH: New Orleans attacker believed in ‘war between the believers and the disbelievers'
Thursday 2 January 2025 18:40
Josh Marcus