NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is calling the New Year's Day mass casualty incident that killed 10 people and injured 30 a "terrorist attack." The FBI is investigating what ...

The suspect in the New Orleans truck crash that killed 10 people and injured 30 revelers in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was killed after a firefight with police, law enforcement officials told ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police say a person who drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in New Orleans early Wednesday was hell-bent on creating carnage.

The FBI is investigating the attack in New Orleans as an “act of terrorism” and have identified the suspect who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations. Follow for ...

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, an Army veteran, drove into a crowd on the pedestrian thoroughfare in the heart of New Orleans at approximately 3:15 a.m. local time on New Year’s Day.

So instead, what New Orleans police did was they parked police cruisers at the intersection to prevent traffic from getting in. But the suspect simply drove around the police cruiser.

The attacker, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Texas, drove a rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

A woman on Bienville Street looks into Bourbon Street next to a barricade with a lifting face, designed to block vehicle traffic, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

FBI Houston and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are currently “conducting law enforcement activity” in north Houston on a block they believe is connected to the attack in New Orleans.