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New CCTV footage show Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s pickup truck speeding through crowded streets in New Orleans, causing chaos as pedestrians scrambled for safety.
CCTV videos of the New Orleans attack (Video screengrabs/Social Media)
At least 15 people were killed after a US Army veteran with an Islamic State flag and “hellbent” on carnage steered a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year revellers in New Orleans on January 1. Dozens of others were injured in the incident.
As the investigations progressed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified the attacker as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas.
He appeared to have been a real estate agent working in Houston and had served as an IT specialist in the military.
New footage from several CCTV cameras on the street has revealed how the pickup truck rushed past many pedestrians, with some rushing to save their lives.
One of the videos showed the pickup truck driver speeding through the street in New Orleans, causing chaos and panic on the street.
🚨 JUST IN: New surveillance video shows the New Orleans attacker FLYING down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, causing mass panicThis is horrifying to watch. pic.twitter.com/5NZ5brnbgl
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 1, 2025
Another video showed the driver speeding past the Bourbon Street while many people were standing in the middle of the road. They could be seen rushing to the sides of the road as the truck approached.
New horrific video of the terrorist attack in New Orleans, look at how fast that SOB was going when he targeted people on the street pic.twitter.com/bYbGGSrxyr— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 1, 2025
Officials said they were searching for accomplices but gave few details.
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick described Jabbar as a “terrorist,” and the FBI said “an ISIS flag was located in the vehicle,” using another name for the Islamic State jihadist group.
US President Joe Biden, describing the attack as “despicable,” said Jabbar had posted videos online hours before “indicating that he was inspired by ISIS.”
Biden also said that law enforcement agencies were probing any possible links between the attack and the explosion later on Wednesday of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a hotel owned by US President-elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas that killed one person, though he cautioned that none had been found so far.
Officials said a manhunt was underway, with FBI agent Alethea Duncan warning that authorities “do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible.”
