This undated handout image released by the FBI on January 1, 2025 shows a photo of late New Orleans attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
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that driver Killed 14 people Inspired by ISIS Vehicle attack in New Orleans used a very rare explosive compound Two senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter told NBC News that the two homemade bombs did not explode.
This explosive has never been used in a terrorist attack or incident in the United States and has never been used in a terrorist attack or incident in the United States. European oneofficials said. A key question now facing investigators is how the attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, knew about the explosives and how he created them.
Neither homemade device exploded, and it’s unclear whether the failure was due to a malfunction, failure to start, or other issues. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plans to use transmitter detonate two bombsrespectively Place in coolerauthorities stated
The two explosive devices were placed on Bourbon Street, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a joint statement Friday. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar It turned into a scene of devastation.
The launcher and two guns were recovered from Jabbar’s truck and were being transported to FBI Lab for testing.
When 42-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A pickup truck drove onto the sidewalk and skirted a police car parked by pedestrians celebrating on the crowded street.
Shortly after the attack, police killed Abdul-Jabbar, a Texas-born U.S. citizen and military veteran.
Friday’s joint statement added that Kareem also set fire to a short-term rental on Mandeville Street in New Orleans where bomb-making materials were found “in an attempt to destroy it and other evidence of his crimes.”
After Kareem Abdul-Jabbar carried out the attack, the New Orleans Fire Department responded to the fire around 5:18 a.m. Located on Bourbon StreetBut the fire “self-extinguished” before spreading to other rooms, allowing “evidence to be recovered, including precursors of bomb-making materials and a privately manufactured device suspected to be a rifle silencer,” the statement said.
The agencies said in a statement that they identified Jabbar as the only person who may have started the fire.
The FBI said the investigation is ongoing and has not changed its position that Jabbar acted alone.
mourning period Relief for victims of the attack will begin on Monday, when President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden travel to New Orleans.
