A portrait of Shamsud-Din Jabbar emerges, accused of the attack on New Orleans
Maya Yang
Military media and media interviews paint a clearer picture Shamsud-Din Jabbar42-year-old Texas man charged in New Year’s Eve crash New Aureliakilling at least 14 people.
Jabbar served 13 years in the US Army, deploying to Afghanistan. On Thursday, the FBI Investigators said they believe Jabbar was acting alone when he attacked the intersection of Bourbon and Canal streets. Officials previously said they believed Jabbar had accomplices.
The FBI said Jabbar had the insignia of the Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, on his release and that the bureau is handling the attack as an act of terrorism.
The FBI also announced that it had found no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the shooting A bang, which happened later on Wednesday outside the hotel Donald Trump in by which.
Jabbar seems to have been born and resurrected Beaumont, Texas.
He served in the Army as a human technology and information specialist from 2007 to 2015, according to an Army official, and was deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010.
He joined the Army Reserve as an IT specialist until 2012, holding the rank of sergeant at the end of his service, according to an Army official.
In addition to serving in the Army, Jabbar had previously enlisted in the Navy in August 2004 under the delayed entry program, but was discharged a month later, a Navy official told Reuters.
Jabbar graduated with a computer information systems degree Georgia State University after studying there from 2015 to 2017, school officials said Atlanta News First.
Key events
A mixture of desire, the street and fans filled the game New Aurelia“Guests as the city thumbs back to normality as the victims of the deadly rampage of the year in which the veterans of the US army plowed into the bacchanalian cart, the Associated Press (AP).
The attack on the Bourbon street killed 14 people, together with the driver; Shamsud-Din Jabbarwhich officials said was inspired by an Islamic militant group. Jabbar was fatally shot during a standoff with police after steering his racing truck around a fence and plowing into a crowd. About 30 people were wounded.
According to the AP, authorities completed the first stage of the process on Thursday morning, removing the last of the bodies. Bourbon Street – famous for its music, air drinks and festive vibes – reopened for business in the early afternoon.
In the same block where the attack was taking place, a trombone player and lifelong New Orleanian Jonas Green He told the AP that his team was the day after the attack. “I know with this music, it heals, it transforms the emotions we go through for the better,” Green said. “Got that again.”
The Sugar Bowl college football game between Notre Dame and Georgia, which was postponed on National Security Day, was played on Thursday evening.
Joan of Arc pomp in the The French quarter It is still scheduled to take place on Monday to kick off the season before Mardi Gras, he said Antoinette de Alteriisone of the organs. He reported that he expects the tool to be close to the typical population of thousands.
In the Bourbon street, flowers and candles were arranged on the graves of the victims, yellow runners were placed on the surrounding logs.
Marcus ThaborWillie, the manager of the Chicken Shack on Bourbon Street, said it was strange to feel the disconnect between the normal driving outside of the French Quarter and the violence he had witnessed 48 hours earlier.
“I’m glad he cleared the roads, but he forgot all about it,” he told the AP. “It’s sad.”
A YouTuber says he narrowly avoided being kidnapped in the thesis New Aurelia The truck attack, after leaving the party minutes before, reports the Associated Press (AP).
German Garmendia He was celebrating the New Year with dozens of others in the street in the early hours of Wednesday. The 34-year-old had arrived at the party around 10pm and decided to leave at 3am. Just 15 minutes later, at 3.15am, a man in a vehicle began to drive into the crowd at the party that was still there.
Federal investigators identified him as the driver Shamsud-Din Jabbar42 years old soldier. Shot from the organizers at the scene in New Orleans, Louisiana, US.
Garmendia shared her experience with her 17 million followers on Instagram.
According to the AP, one of Garmendia’s companions had sent him a message asking if he was OK after he shared that he was attending a party. In the video, Germán, who is from Copiapó, Chile, said:
At 3.15 in the morning, a man with a vehicle, in the middle of the road, began to drive over people.
He managed to kill many people, and many are in the hospital.
2.55 I remember that I was with my friends when I said that they were already tired and I thought about staying. I looked at the time on my cell phone and it was 3 o’clock so I said it’s good time to rest and we’ll be back.”
The AP reports that Garmendia has not since said anything more about the attack.
A portrait of Shamsud-Din Jabbar emerges, accused of the attack on New Orleans
Maya Yang
Military media and media interviews paint a clearer picture Shamsud-Din Jabbar42-year-old Texas man charged in New Year’s Eve crash New Aureliakilling at least 14 people.
Jabbar served 13 years in the US Army, deploying to Afghanistan. On Thursday, the FBI Investigators said they believe Jabbar was acting alone when he attacked the intersection of Bourbon and Canal streets. Officials previously said they believed Jabbar had accomplices.
The FBI said Jabbar had the insignia of the Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, on his release and that the bureau is handling the attack as an act of terrorism.
The FBI also announced that it had found no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the shooting A bang, which happened later on Wednesday outside the hotel Donald Trump in by which.
Jabbar seems to have been born and resurrected Beaumont, Texas.
He served in the Army as a human technology and information specialist from 2007 to 2015, according to an Army official, and was deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010.
He joined the Army Reserve as an IT specialist until 2012, holding the rank of sergeant at the end of his service, according to an Army official.
In addition to serving in the Army, Jabbar had previously enlisted in the Navy in August 2004 under the delayed entry program, but was discharged a month later, a Navy official told Reuters.
Jabbar graduated with a computer information systems degree Georgia State University after studying there from 2015 to 2017, school officials said Atlanta News First.
Anna Betts
New Year’s Day attacks on victims New Aurelia they compose a tapestry, but the vicissitudes of the character of the cosmopolitan multitude that descends on the most famous city The French quarter to celebrate on any occasion.
Authorities have not yet released the names of those who were killed on suspicion of terrorism at least 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured, but each family member and friend spoke.
First identified by local media in New Orleans Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux18, who traveled to the city from the bay near Sinumprus, Mississippi, with a brother and a friend; Reggie Huntera 37-year-old father of two from Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Tiger Beecha Lafayette, Louisiana, native and former basketball player in his late 20s.
He was the fourth victim is named Nicholas Pereza 28-year-old single mother and manager from Metairie, Louisiana, and a delicatessen who was celebrating the New Year with friends. Hubert Gauthreaux21 and c Kareem Badawi18, victims from previous schools and families.
He was also killed Matthew Tenedorio25, audio visual technicians who had gone out with friends, next to their family, and Boy DiMaio25, a New York-based account executive who had traveled to New Orleans to celebrate the New Year with friends.
As their deaths were confirmed, families and loved ones from across the US paid tribute to those killed.
You can read the full part through Anna Betts, Marina Dunbar and Raymond Anthony Vargas in New Orleans below:
Opening summary
This is the Guardian’s latest blog post on the developments behind the horrific attack New Aurelia in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Authorities continue to investigate the route for suspected radicalization; Shamsud-Din Jabbar a 42-year-old Texas native who once served in Afghanistan.
The FBI now says it believes it acted alone and there does not currently appear to be a connection to the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a hotel owned by the US president-elect. Donald Trump in Las Vegas
It is known as a Cybertruck driver Matthew Livelsbergeran active-duty Army soldier from Colorado Springs, and told police he acted alone. Livelsberger killed himself with a gun, police said, and was inside a vehicle with canisters of gasoline and large mortars that exploded in the car.
While the attack was not connected the military relations of the two men will be in the area of searchers
There will also be questions about whether more was done to protect commuters in the Bourbon Street area of New Orleans after it emerged that many bollards designed to stop vehicle attacks were not operational. You can read more here.