The New Orleans Raiders Shamsud-Din Jabbar worked alone and planted remote detonators in coolers at two locations near the French Quarter, hours before driving the truck at high speed to in the crowd celebrating New Year's Bourbon. On the street, President Biden said at a press conference on Thursday.
“We have no information that there is anyone else involved in the attack,” Biden said during a press conference on his administration's 235 judicial confirmations. “They discovered that the attacker was the same person who planted explosives in ice coolers in two places near the French Quarter, a few hours before he attacked the crowd in his car. in his car to drop two ice chests.”
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President Biden said the New Orleans attacker acted alone and had a remote detonator for the explosives. (Associated Press)
Biden said federal officials were investigating possible links to the Las Vegas blast, also cited as a terrorist attack, and urged them to “expedite” their efforts. Fourteen people were killed, and Jabbar died in a shootout with the police.
“As of right now, they've just been notified,” Biden said. “They have found no evidence of such a connection so far. I have instructed them to keep looking.”
The FBI announced Jabbar like the driver who smashed a rental truck into a crowd of New Year's Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The office told congressional lawmakers on Thursday that it had no information about Jabbar before his attack. They also said that although Jabbar said he was “inspired” by ISIS, investigators did not find any evidence that he was controlled by ISIS.
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Authorities are patrolling Bourbon Street as it reopens in New Orleans on Thursday after a man drove a truck into crowds of New Year's Eve revelers on Wednesday. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
Hospitals in New Orleans treated 37 victims injured in Wednesday's attack. LCMC Health has not specified how many of the injured have been released from the hospital, nor has it clarified the condition of those who remain in the hospital.
Authorities were investigating a possible military relationship between Jabbar and the Las Vegas suspect, identified by The Associated Press as Matthew Livelsberger.
“As you know, there is also and the FBI research in Las Vegas. We are following all possible leads and we are not judging anything,” FBI Assistant Deputy Director of the Counterterrorism Division Christopher Raia told reporters on Thursday. one in Las Vegas.”
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Jabbar, a native American born in Texas, had served in the US military. Authorities are investigating how and when he changed.
Anders Hagstrom and Danielle Wallace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.