FBI believes multiple people were involved in New Orleans attacks
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Early reports about multiple participants in mass killings often tend not to pan out, but there seems to be something here:
The man who plowed a pickup truck into a crowded Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 35 others, likely didn’t work alone, FBI officials said Wednesday.
The FBI is taking lead on the investigation into 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran from Texas who was fatally shot by police after he mowed people down on Bourbon Street. FBI Special Agent Aletha Duncan said others involved in the attack are likely still on the loose.
“We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible. We are aggressively running down every lead, including of those of his known associates,” Duncan said.
Duncan said there are “a range of suspects,” but did not say how many there are believed to be.
Duncan said multiple improvised explosive devices had been found, both in Jabbar’s truck and in the French Quarter. Two explosives had been “rendered safe,” Duncan said. She said investigators are working to determine if other devices found are “viable.” She did not say the precise locations or number of devices found.
The AP reported that investigators reviewed video showing three men and a woman placing improvised devices in the French Quarter. The AP cited a Louisiana State Police bulletin.
It appears among other things that this could have been even worse than it was quite easily.
Let’s hope that the investigators are taking this more seriously than Oxford Vanderbilt Foghorn Leghorn:
If my constituents had just been slaughtered in a terrorist attack I wouldn’t be cracking jokes for the cameras but that’s just me.
[image or embed]— Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) January 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This cynical reactionary with his “I’m jus’ a simple country law person” schtick is one of the most contemptible people in the United States Senate, an impressive achievement in its own perverse way.