(2 Jan 2025)
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New Orleans, Louisiana – 2 January 2025
1. Mid of pickup truck
2. Pan right of military personnel shaking hands with police officers
3. Various mid of military personnel and police officers
4. Various wide of street and police tape
5. Mid of street
6. Mid of military personnel and police officer speaking
7. Mid of military personnel getting into truck
8. Wide of street
9. Mid of two police officers standing by vehicle
10. Zoom out of military personnel
STORYLINE:
Emergency service workers have cordoned off street access at the scene where a man sped through a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans and killed at least 15 people.
The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressing a desire to kill, the president said.
The FBI identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas, and said it was working to determine any potential associations with terrorist organizations.
A driver steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot to death by police on Wednesday morning.
The FBI said it was investigating the attack as a terrorist act and does not believe the driver acted alone.
Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle — which bore the flag of the Islamic State group — along with other explosive devices elsewhere in the city’s famed French Quarter.
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.
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