New Orleans Attacker Used Meta Glasses To Scout City Before Rampage

The FBI reports that the New Orleans attacker filmed the French Quarter using Meta glasses weeks before the truck attack. (Credit: X / Frontalforce 🇮🇳 @FrontalForce)

Weeks before his deadly rampage in the French Quarter, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, now called the New Orleans attacker, cycled through the city wearing smart glasses, filming his surroundings, the FBI revealed.

Federal authorities disclosed Sunday that Jabbar, the man who rammed a truck into a crowd on New Year's Day, had used Meta smart glasses to record footage of the French Quarter during a bicycle ride in October. These are the same smart glasses he allegedly wore during the deadly attack months later.