In the early hours of the New Year’s Day celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the city was attacked when a driver veered a pickup truck into the crowd, killing 14 people and wounding at least 35 others. The suspect was also killed in a gunfire exchange with police.
The New Orleans Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New Orleans field office continue to share details about the attack, but the investigation is still underway.
In a press conference on Jan. 1, Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, shared that the suspect responsible for the attack had been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar. She expressed that the FBI does not believe that Jabbar worked alone.
Here’s everything we do—and don’t—know about the attack so far.
What happened during the New Orleans attack?
At “approximately 3:15 a.m.” local time, an individual driving a rented …