At least 10 people were killed and 35 were injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter on New Year’s Day.
The suspect is dead.
The incident occurred around 3:15 a.m. at Bourbon and Iberville streets near the end of New Year’s celebrations and hours before the AllState Sugar Bowl at the Caesars Superdome.
The suspect fired on officers, injuring two of them after crashing the vehicle. The two officers are reported to be in stable condition. The FBI is leading the investigation. The FBI says its investigating attack as “act of terrorism.”
NOLA.com is the local news outlet in New Orleans. Good paper.
CBS is reporting the same thing.
From the same source? Because it doesn’t matter whether the paper is good or if more than one outlet is reporting it if it’s all from one bad source.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/law-enforcement-officials-identify-suspect-new-orleans-attack-rcna185929
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/shamsud-din-jabbar-new-orleans-attack-suspect-b2672503.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/new-orleans-truck-attack-terrorism-fbi.html
https://www.theadvocate.com/news/crime_police/new-orleans-suspect-bourbon-street-attack/article_578911df-d5cb-5822-9968-595ec98fc491.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/01/law-enforcement-identify-suspect-new-orleans-attack/77381195007/
All of those have “law enforcement” as their source for the identity.
I’m with @[email protected] on this one.
By law enforcement, they mean an FBI press statement. But if that’s not good enough for you…
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-the-attack-in-new-orleans
Early reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing was pointing fingers at Muslims, too.
If you don’t accept what any law enforcement says, even though they have his body and ID, you could have just said so and there would have been no reason to respond to you.
First of all, there is no telling if he is Muslim. Secondly, the FBI tends to have more than one piece of evidence before making such a statement. But, by all means wait.