New Orleans rampage suspect acted as lone wolf, FBI says

[SouthBayDem]

Source: WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio

The suspect in the New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street acted alone when he slammed his vehicle into a crowd, killing 14 and injuring dozens of others, the FBI said Thursday.

FBI officials, Gov. Jeff Landry, Mayor LaToya Cantrell provided an update on the investigation at a news conference Thursday morning.

“It was premeditated and an evil act,” said Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division.

Raia said the agency has sent special agents from multiple field offices to aid the investigation, including evidence response technicians, hostage rescue team members, bomb technicians, and crisis management coordinators.

Read more: https://www.wwno.org/wwno/2025-01-02/new-orleans-rampage-suspect-acted-as-lone-wolf-fbi-says

[RockRaven]

1. So those reports of other people planting bombs were overhyped overinterpreted

crap, as usual with events like these. Will the media ever learn? Of course not, it isn't in their interests to behave any differently.

[uncledad]

2. It's not a matter of learning

It is their business model. Every cable and network news outlet has paid on standby speculators. If they don't have any real facts then they bring on the speculators and just make shit up. It is the height of irresponsible "journalism". They speculate and run whatever video they have over and over like a bunch of fucking ghouls.

[miyazaki]

4. Reminds me When CNN brought out their travel guru

to cover a jet crash; they had fired their science reporter.

CNN has been blowing ass for decades rofl.

[Prairie Gates]

5. There were either remote controlled bombs in coolers or there weren't

There was either a fire at the AirBnB where he was staying or there wasn't.

The fire was started hours after the event or it wasn't.

[Igel]

7. No indications that the cooler bombs weren't there.

What's at issue are another IED planted elsewhere.

People were on video near where the IEDs where. Now they say that Jabbar planted it.

The Associated Press reported that investigators had surveillance video showing four people placing an improvised explosive device at the scene. However, the FBI later clarified that surveillance footage showed only Jabbar placing IEDs where they were found — one at the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans streets and another two blocks away.

Additional surveillance footage showed people near one of the two IEDs, but they were seen stopping to look at the cooler it was housed in before continuing on their way.

I find that slightly garbled but clear enough for a standard news article.

[IronLionZion]

3. News even showed video clips of other folks in the area

who are apparently not involved whatsoever.

[Harker]

6. That seems awfully fast to come to that conclusion. n/t