New Orleans striker Acting alone, Shams Al-Din Jabbar planted “remote detonator” explosives inside coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter, just hours before driving a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year in Bourbon. President Biden said at a press conference on Thursday.
He added: “We have no information about anyone else's involvement in the attack.” Biden said During a press conference about his administration's 235 judicial confirmations. “They established that the attacker was the same person who planted explosives in ice coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter, just a few hours before he rammed his car into the crowd. They estimated that he had a remote detonation device.” . “In his car to blow up these two ice chests.”
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President Biden says New Orleans attacker acted alone and had a remote explosive detonation device. (Associated Press)
Biden said federal agents were investigating possible links to the Las Vegas bombing, which was also being investigated as a terrorist attack, and urged them to “accelerate” their efforts. Fourteen people were killed, and Jabbar died in a shootout with police.
“So far, they've just been briefed,” Biden said. “They have found no evidence of such a connection yet. I have directed them to continue searching.”
Select FBI Mighty Represented the driver who rammed a rental truck into a crowd of New Year's 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 while Jabbar said he was “inspired” by ISIS, investigators found no evidence that he was taking direction from ISIS.
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Authorities patrol Bourbon Street as it reopens in New Orleans on Thursday after a man drove a truck into crowds of New Year's revelers on Wednesday. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
New Orleans Hospitals It treated a total of 37 victims injured in Wednesday's attack. LCMC Health did not say how many infected people have been discharged from the hospital since then, nor did it clarify the condition of those still hospitalized.
Authorities were investigating a possible military connection between Jabbar and the suspect in Las Vegas, whom law enforcement identified to The Associated Press as Matthew Livelsperger.
“You know, there too FBI Investigation in Las Vegas. “We are following up on all potential leads and are not ruling anything out,” Christopher Raya, the FBI's deputy assistant director for the Counterterrorism Division, told reporters Thursday. One in Las Vegas.”
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Jabbar, a US citizen born in Texas, previously served in the US Army. The authorities are still investigating how and when he was radicalized.
Fox News Digital's Anders Hagstrom and Daniel Wallace contributed to this report.
