FBI: New Orleans attacker acted alone
The FBI no longer suspects that the New Orleans attacker had any accomplices, AFP reports.
– This was an act of terrorism, it was planned and a wicked act, says spokesman Christopher Raia during a press conference.
Initially, the police suspected that several people had placed explosive devices in the city before the attack. However, after reviewing surveillance footage, the FBI concluded that the suspected attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, did it alone, before driving into a crowd.
According to the FBI, he rented the car in Houston and published several videos on Facebook in which he swore allegiance to IS during the trip to New Orleans.
Police sources: Jabbar talked about killing his family – joined IS instead
42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar talked in a series of videos about killing his own family, several police sources with insight into the investigation into the New Orleans attack told CNN.
In one clip, Jabbar is said to have talked about his divorce and how he planned to gather his family for a “celebration” with the aim of shooting them dead. In the same clip, Jabbar says that he later changed his mind and instead decided to join the terrorist group IS, after he had several dreams that “inspired him”.
The clips, which CNN has not verified, appear to have been filmed at night when Jabbar was out driving. They form a piece of the puzzle in the police’s mapping of the 42-year-old, and how he went from being a war veteran to killing fifteen people on New Year’s Eve.
The FBI no longer suspects that the New Orleans attacker had any accomplices, AFP reports.
– This was an act of terrorism, it was planned and a wicked act, says spokesman Christopher Raia during a press conference.
Initially, the police suspected that several people had placed explosive devices in the city before the attack. However, after reviewing surveillance footage, the FBI concluded that the suspected attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, did it alone, before driving into a crowd.
According to the FBI, he rented the car in Houston and published several videos on Facebook in which he swore allegiance to IS during the trip to New Orleans.
Police sources: Jabbar talked about killing his family – joined IS instead
42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar talked in a series of videos about killing his own family, several police sources with insight into the investigation into the New Orleans attack told CNN.
In one clip, Jabbar is said to have talked about his divorce and how he planned to gather his family for a “celebration” with the aim of shooting them dead. In the same clip, Jabbar says that he later changed his mind and instead decided to join the terrorist group IS, after he had several dreams that “inspired him”.
The clips, which CNN has not verified, appear to have been filmed at night when Jabbar was out driving. They form a piece of the puzzle in the police’s mapping of the 42-year-old, and how he went from being a war veteran to killing fifteen people on New Year’s Eve.
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