A senior FBI official told reporters on Jan. 2 that the agency believes the suspect who killed more than a dozen people by driving a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers acted alone to carry out an “evil act” of terror.
Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division, said at the New Orleans press conference on Thursday that 14 people had been killed and at least 35 injured in what he said was a “senseless attack.”
Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas has been identified as the suspect in the deadly attack, which took place at around 3:15 a.m. on Jan. 1 toward the end of New Year’s celebrations on Bourbon Street. Jabbar died in a shootout with police after driving a truck into a crowd of revelers and firing at officers, officials said….