Shamsud-Din Jabbar was working alone when he carried out the New Year’s Day New Orleans attack that killed 15 people and injured 30 others, the FBI said today at a briefing. “We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack except for Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the subject you’ve already been briefed on,” said Deputy Assistant Christopher Raia with the bureau’s Counterterrorism Division. The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of terrorism. Jabbar, 42, is believed to have driven a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street and a key line of inquiry is whether the attack was orchestrated or inspired by a foreign terrorist group.
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11:44 AM EST
Orleans Parish compares attack to 9/11
Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams said that Americans are going to see big changes in their way of life, comparable to those after 9/11.
“You’re going to see everything change about large-scale events,” Williams said.
“It’s almost like just after 9/11… Everything changed after 9/11. I think you’re going to see everything change about large-scale events,” Williams told CNN
“We’re going to do everything we can to make sure that the public is safe, that our visitors are safe, and that this event (the Sugar Bowl) that is important to Americans goes off safely.”
11:38 AM EST
More than 1,000 agents are sifting through data after attack
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said that more than 1,000 law enforcement agents and officers are sifting through data since the attack on Wednesday.
“From yesterday to today, over a thousand law enforcement agents and officers, men and women, have been pouring over countless amounts of data of videos of surveillances, interviews, tracking down every possible lead that came to us,” he said at a press conference today.
New Orleans Terror Attack Update: FBI Says Suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar Acted Alone
