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Chris Graythen/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The New Orleans Saints and the NFL announced Saturday that they will donate $1 million to the victims of the New Year’s Day truck ramming attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured dozens of others. “Our community has experienced an unimaginable tragedy and our collective hearts […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Authorities investigating the suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year’s Day are probing when, where and how his alleged “radicalization” occurred, a local official said on Friday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen from […]

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS,  La) — New Orleans city leaders were warned in a 2019 confidential physical security assessment that tourist-packed Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming attack because some of the existing blockade mechanisms were inoperable. The warning proved painfully real five years later on New Year’s Day when a Texas man, Shamsud-Din […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year’s had traveled to Egypt in 2023 for about a month, his half-brother told ABC News. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen from Texas, went to Egypt alone and […]

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A deadly car-ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans left 14 people deadand 35 others injured early on New Year’s Day, authorities said. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalk and around a parked police car serving as a barricade to plow into pedestrians over […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will head to New Orleans on Monday to meet with the families and community members impacted by the devastating truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens, the White House said. Biden said Friday that he’s spoken with victims’ families. […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning the nation’s 18,000 law-enforcement agencies about potential copycats seeking to emulate the devastating New Year’s ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, ABC News has learned. The bulletin was sent out of an abundance of […]

Carsten Rehder/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — An Army veteran who was “hell-bent” on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around a parked police car serving as a barricade and plowed through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, leaving at least 15 […]

Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Authorities no longer believe there are any other suspects involved in the New Year’s truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured 35 others, the FBI said Thursday. After investigators reviewed all of the surveillance videos more closely, it appears that […]

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The man suspected of plowing a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s, killing 14 people and injuring 35 others, pledged his support to ISIS, the FBI said Thursday. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen who lived in Houston, […]