Feds unveil timeline of New Orleans terror suspect’s movements leading up to deadly attack
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Jabbar, 42, traveled from his home in Houston, Texas, to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve in a rented pickup truck. The FBI has shared the movements of suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar in the final days and hours leading up to his deadly New Orleans attack early New Year’s Day.
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New details have emerged about how Jabbar, 42, traveled from his home in Houston, Texas, to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve in a rented pickup truck. He later rammed it into a crowd on bustling Bourbon Street, filled with revelers enjoying the celebrations at approximately 3:15 a.m. on January 1.
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Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Christopher Raia, the FBI’s deputy assistant director of its counter-terrorism division, said investigators are reviewing video footage of Jabbar recorded in the hours before the attack where he “proclaimed his support for ISIS.”.
Jabbar joined ISIS before this summer, Raia said at the briefing. The FBI and other agencies are combing through “hundreds of hours” of footage and surveillance, Raia added. This is how the movements of the suspect unfolded in the days and hours leading up to the massacre.
According to Raia, Jabbar collected the rented Ford F-150 pickup truck that he used to plow into the crowd just over 24 hours later in Houston, Texas. Jabbar moved north of Houston a year ago but previously lived in an apartment building in the city from 2021 to 2023.
Jabbar then drove the roughly 350-mile journey from Houston to New Orleans on the evening of New Year’s Eve. During the journey, which is approximately a six-hour drive, Jabbar “posted several videos to an online platform proclaiming his support for ISIS,” Raia said.
