10 Dead…35 Injuried in a New Years Truck attack in New Orleans

The authorities called it a deliberate attack and said the truck appeared to have been carrying improvised explosives. “He was hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” the New Orleans police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, said in a news conference.

Here’s what else to know:

• The attack: The man drove the truck at high speed into crowds around 3:15 a.m. before crashing and then opening fire, shooting two police officers, Superintendent Kirkpatrick said. A New Orleans councilman who visited the officers in the hospital said they were in stable condition.

• The truck: The pickup used in the attack is registered to a 42-year-old Houston man, according to law enforcement officials familiar with the evidence, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a fast-developing investigation. The F.B.I. is investigating to determine if the owner of the vehicle, who is not the person identified as the dead suspect, was involved in the attack.

• Questions about barriers: New Orleans has been upgrading security bollards along a section of Bourbon Street in the area of the attack, according to the city’s website. The project involved replacing old bollards — barriers designed to protect pedestrians and property from vehicles — with removable stainless-steel ones. It is unclear if any bollards were in place during the attack.

• Investigation: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said that the F.B.I., the A.T.F., prosecutors with the National Security Division and the local federal prosecutor’s office were all working on the case, treating the attack as an act of terrorism. Officials said they were trying to determine if the improvised explosives found in the truck were viable.

• Location: The attack happened in the area of Canal and Bourbon Streets during raucous celebrations in the city’s French Quarter, hours before Notre Dame and the University of Georgia were to play in the Sugar Bowl at the city’s Superdome. Read more about the French Quarter’s importance to New Orleans….

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Update..

The shooter WAS American born and a US Vet….

On Wednesday morning, hours after a man drove a pickup truck into New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans, killing 10 people, President-elect Donald J. Trump suggested on social media that his condemnations of undocumented immigrants had been validated.

“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true,” Mr. Trump said on his website, Truth Social.

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Some early reports about the attack said the truck was driven across the border from Mexico into the United States. Officials have since identified the suspect as a U.S.-born citizen and Army veteran who lived in Texas, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar.