President Biden says the man who drove a pickup truck into throngs of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans early Wednesday had posted videos to social media hours earlier pledging allegiance to the militant group ISIS. The attack killed 15 people and wounded at least 35 others, carving a path of destruction down Bourbon Street before the assailant was killed in a firefight with police officers. President-elect Trump responded on social media, writing, “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in...

More details have emerged about the suspect in the New Year’s Day morning terror attack that killed 15 people in New Orleans. Authorities previously identified the man who drove a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native and an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan. Following the attack, which the FBI called “an act of terrorism,” Jabbar was killed after exchanging gunfire with police officers. According to CNN, prior to the attack and while driving from Texas to Louisiana, Jabbar recorded...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into “people of interest” related to the New Year’s attack in New Orleans , the city's Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday.

“We have people of interest. They are not people who are suspects at this time,” Kirkpatrick said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. She added that the New Orleans Police Department hadn’t received any intelligence from federal authorities warning of a terror threat.

A series of videos reveal the ISIS ties of the suspect in the New Year's Day New Orleans attack that killed 15 people and injured 30 others. The FBI is investigating the fatal attack as an act of terrorism. While a motive has not yet been revealed, videos have emerged which provide some insight into suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar' s possible motivations and thinking. 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...

Louisiana’s top lawyer is vowing an eye-for-an-eye for those believed to be involved in the Bourbon Street terror attack. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill warns, “In Louisiana, we have the death penalty, and we will carry it out!” she writes in a post on X. The post comes after a horrifying massacre where a suspect drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 15 people. The driver, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran, is dead following a...

The Texas man named as the suspect in the deadly New Orleans attack posted videos on social media indicating he was "inspired" by the Islamic State just hours before he drove a truck into a crowd celebrating the new year, President Joe Biden has said. On Wednesday, Jan. 1, the president, 82, condemned the "despicable" and "heinous act," which killed 15 people and injured dozens of others, in a speech shared on The White House's X (formerly known as Twitter) page. The attack, which is now considered an act of...

NEW ORLEANS, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Investigators in New Orleans were searching on Thursday for what motivated a U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck to plow into a crowd of New Year's revelers, killing 15 people and injuring 30 more before dying in a shootout with police. The probe was focused on whether the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, had help in planning the deadly attack on a city that will host the NFL Super Bowl next...

Early in the morning of New Years' Day, a man rammed a car into a crowd in New Orleans' busy Canal and Bourbon Streets.

Sixteen people were killed, including the suspect, who died in a shootout with police.

US authorities believe the perpetrator may have held extreme Islamist beliefs.

The FBI field office in Texas, said it was conducting raids in the suspect's hometown of Houston.

Here's the latest on the aftermath of the deadly truck ramming in New Orleans: