The FBI says that the New Orleans truck attack suspect acted alone

Suspect in New Orleans Attack Is Identified: What We Know? A Man’s Email Says It Was Don’t and It Wasn’t

He stated in the email that the real estate company he formed lost more than $28,000 in the previous year. He said that he had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt to pay for lawyers and for establishing a second residence. The email suggested that he and his wife divide the proceeds from the house sale.

Mr. Jabbar was married at least once in each of the past two years. In the midst of a divorce, Mr. Jabbar wrote an email to his wife’s lawyer in order to describe his financial problems. “I cannot afford the house payment,” he wrote.

The man said the F.B.I. called him and he explained that he had not been driving the vehicle but had rented it out. He said he had been asked by the federal agents not to discuss the matter publicly.

The vehicle that was used in the attack in New Orleans was registered to a man from Houston who leased it on a peer-to-peer car sharing website. That man, who asked that his name be not made public, said that he and his family were about to go to the zoo when he saw the news about the attack and saw the truck that was involved.

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The Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver of the pickup truck plowed into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day

In 2002 and 2005 he had been charged with a variety of offenses, the most common being a theft and driving with an invalid license.

In a YouTube video from 2020 that appears to have been posted by Mr. Jabbar, he spoke positively about his skills in real estate. He said he had been born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, and had served in the U.S. military.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was examining an Islamic State flag that was found in the truck used in the attack, as well as a “potential” improvised explosive device discovered in the vehicle.

Shamsud-Din was born in Texas, and was thought to be responsible for the attack in New Orleans.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver of the pickup truck who plowed into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens, acted alone and there is no other threat around the Bourbon Street area, the FBI said Thursday.

“We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack,” Christopher Raia, FBI deputy assistant director with the agency’s counterterrorism division, told reporters during a press conference.

Raia said there is nothing to indicate he was aided in the attack by anyone and investigators were combing through his five electronic devices, including three cellphones and two laptops.

The FBI was searching for additional suspects who may have aided in the attack after changing its assessment that it was not just Jabbar who did it.

Police have said that around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Jabbar veered around a police vehicle blocking the intersection of Canal and Bourbon streets, speeding onto the sidewalk before steering back onto Bourbon. He continued for nearly three blocks down Bourbon Street, crossing Iberville Street and Bienville Street, and then crashing just before Conti Street. Two police officers were injured when the pickup driver exited the vehicle and fired at them. The police said that the injured officers are in stable condition.

The New Orleans Staircase, the Sugar Bowl, and the Cybertruck Explosion: Loss of an Unusual Las Vegas Violationer

Bourbon Street was opened to pedestrians on Thursday after being cleaned overnight. Fourteen yellow roses have been placed on the sidewalk near Canal Street as a makeshift memorial for each of those killed in the speeding rampage.

The Sugar Bowl, a nationally televised game that is part of the college football playoffs, was slated to take place in New Orleans on Wednesday night but was postponed until Thursday afternoon.

When asked about security measures in the city ahead of the game, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters that officials “reinforced the area” and “deployed some additional types of assets.”

“I don’t like to give specifics because I don’t like to tell the enemy what we got,” he said. “But I can tell you we’re in better shape than we used to be,” he said. He also said there is “an unprecedented amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized” to finalize the investigation.

Raia said there is currently no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas which killed the suspect inside the vehicle.

Source: FBI now says the suspect in the deadly New Orleans truck attack acted alone

Search for a U.S. Citizen in the Area of Jabbar’s Birthplace: The Case of Delibately Discharged IT Specialist

The FBI said that the man was discharged from the Army after being a U.S. citizen. He was an IT Specialist in the Army Reserve from July 2020 to January 2015, but also served as a Human Resource Specialist from March 2007, according to an Army spokesman. In February of last year he went to serve in Afghanistan. The rank of staff sergeant was the place where he left the service.

The FBI said in a post on social media that there’s no threat to residents in the area and that it had finished the search of Jabbar’s home. The Texas Newsroom reported that a neighbor, who didn’t know Jabbar by name, described the suspect as quiet and their interactions as normal.