The FBI said on Thursday that it now believed the suspect acted alone in an “act of terrorism” in the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 and injured dozens more when a man drove a rented pickup into a crowd celebrating on busy Bourbon Street.
The chief suspect, the 42-year-old US citizen Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed as he shot at police and officers returned fire, bringing the total deaths from the incident to 15, with more than 35 injured.