On New Year’s Eve, Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, drove a rented Ford F-150 displaying an ISIS flag into a crowd in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. Prior to the attack, he rented the truck in Houston, checked into an Airbnb, and assembled explosives intended for a larger bombing. After the incident, a fire broke out at the Airbnb, possibly linked to the explosives. Jabbar later died in a shootout with police. Law enforcement, including the FBI and ATF, recovered bomb-making materials from the property, emphasizing the attack was a lone act without known accomplices.
Doorbell footage showed the Bourbon Street terrorist unloading a rented pickup truck hours before killing 15 people and injuring at least 30 others.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, plowed into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday with a car displaying an ISIS flag.
Dressed in military uniform, he loaded a bomb into a white electric Ford F-150 Lightning and mowed down pedestrians, then got out and shot and killed more pedestrians.
Jabbar rented a pickup in Houston with Turo and drove to New Orleans on Tuesday night, then checked into an Airbnb on Mandeville Street in St. Roch.
Neighbor Michael Addasco saw his Ring doorbell camera capture footage of the terrorists arriving at 10:02 p.m. and unloading an F-150 into his home.
The footage showed Jabbar lifting the box from the tray of his pickup truck and carrying it from a curbside parking lot inside.
Investigators said Jabbar rented an Airbnb with parts to make an improvised explosive device and to assemble it for his rampage.
Joshua Jackson, the ATF special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Division, said Thursday that ATF is still searching the rented home.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, plowed into a crowd enjoying a New Year’s Eve party in New Orleans around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday with a car displaying an ISIS flag.
After assembling the explosives, Jabbar placed them in an F-150 and placed some in ice coolers around Bourbon Street, planning to detonate them with a remote detonator, but they never detonated during the attack. .
Minutes after the attack, a fire broke out in the Airbnb, destroying the house. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Addasco told CNN that her neighbor called 911 around 4 a.m. and that if she hadn’t called 911, “we could have died.”
“There are a lot of variables that make this scary. It was 5:10 a.m. When we woke up, there were eight fire trucks fighting the fire at the Airbnb next door,” he said.
“I smelled a fire in the middle of the night and thought it was fireworks.”
Federal agents knocked on his door around 9 a.m. and he showed them the footage.
The FBI removed bomb-making materials from the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property near the French Quarter.
The footage showed Jabbar lifting the box from the pickup’s tray and carrying it from a curbside parking lot inside.
The driver who plowed into pedestrians celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more, dies after a shootout with police.
New Orleans police pull bomb containment container from premises
The entire containment vessel was seen being removed from the site around 8pm on New Year’s Day, hours after authorities evacuated residents from the area.
The area is primarily a rental property for tourists visiting the area during the holidays, who now have no place to stay.
Authorities told one couple “not to expect” them to return to the property, with roads in a three-way radius closed.
The FBI was joined by special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Homeland Security.
“We know that the people who were renting this house were using it for that purpose (making bombs),” State Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News.
This two-bed, two-bathroom property was renovated by real estate developer Oliver Doxeter of Wisteria Properties.
FBI admits ‘no definitive link’ between New Orleans terrorist attack and Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Christopher Raia said NOLA terror suspect Shamsuddin Jabar is a lone wolf.
“At this time, we do not assess that anyone other than Shamsud Din Jabbar is responsible for this attack. We have already been briefed on this matter,” Raia said.
Jabbar serves as the information technology team chief for the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team during a leadership training program rotation Nov. 16, 2013, at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
The FBI’s new conclusions come a day after a Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, just hours after the deadly car attack.
The statement reverses previous assessments that Jabbar likely had an accomplice.
“As you know, there is an FBI investigation going on in Las Vegas as well,” Laia said. “We are following up on all potential leads and are not ruling out anything.
“However, at this time there is no definitive connection between the attack here in New Orleans and the attack in Las Vegas.
“And just to preface it one last time, I’ll preface everything by what we started with, which was that we’re in the very early stages of this kind of investigation.”
