New images show ISIS terrorist Shamsuddin Jabbar plotting an attack just over an hour before he plowed his pickup truck into a crowd celebrating New Year's on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people. It was done.
of FBI releases surveillance footage The killer walked down Dauphin Street near Governor Nichols Street around 2:03 a.m. wearing what appeared to be a long light brown coat, a dark button-down shirt, blue jeans and brown dress shoes. was.
Federal authorities also released images of a blue and white cooler containing an improvised explosive device, the FBI said. Jabbar, 42, placed it around 3 a.m. Wednesday near the spot where he would later brutally murder revelers in the French Quarter.
Mr. Jabbar, who was wearing camouflage at the time, died in a gunfight with police after the fatal attack, which left dozens of others injured. Federal law enforcement authorities have ruled the brutal attack an act of terrorism.
Investigators say the Army veteran from Texas specifically singled out Bourbon Street as the target of his heinous act of terrorism and revealed his allegiance to Islamic terrorist organizations in videos posted in the hours and minutes leading up to the massacre. I confirmed that I had sworn.
Federal authorities say the gunman recorded the video while driving from Houston to New Orleans in the rental Ford F-150 Lightning EV he used in the attack.
Once in New Orleans, Jabbour was seen on surveillance video planting an IED near the intersection of Bourbon Street and Orleans Street.
At 3:15 a.m., FBI bomb technicians recovered two other explosives from a cooler abandoned at the corner of Bourbon and Orleans Streets and at an intersection two blocks away.
Investigators also found what appeared to be a gun and an improvised explosive device inside the vehicle, and a black Islamic State flag was displayed on the back of the vehicle.
Anyone with information or additional footage is asked to submit a tip.
