Chilling eskie detail as FBI releases terror pic in New Orleans ramming

The FBI has released chilling new vision in relation to the terror attack in New Orleans that left 15 people dead.

Two blue ice chests containing explosive devices were planted in New Orlean’s famous French Quarter just hours before a truck rammed through the city and killed 14 people, the FBI have revealed.

Police believe suspect US Army veteran Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, acted alone as he rammed a white Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up truck ploughed into revellers in Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

However, they now believe Jabbar placed two ice chests in the area an hour before ramming the truck through the crowd and found a remote detonator in his vehicle.

The FBI have released images showing New Orleans terror suspect Shamsud- Din Jabbar. Picture: X

Police located two ice chests in the area. Picture: X

The FBI have released photos of the ice chests and a well dressed Jabbar walking through the French Quarter at 2am – just an hour before the attack took place.

“The #FBI is asking witnesses who passed him on the street or saw this blue ice chest containing an IED to contact us,” the FBI wrote on X.

On Thursday local time, US President Joe Biden said they do not believe anyone else was involved in the attack.

“They’ve established that the attacker was the same person who planted the explosives in those ice coolers in two nearby locations in the French Quarter, just a few hours before he rammed into the crowd with his vehicle,” Mr Biden said.

“They assessed he had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off those two ice chests.”

CCTV and dashcam videos have shown how the truck evaded police barriers and the vehicle then speeding down narrow streets as revellers tried desperately to get out of the way.

An ISIS flag was seen on the truck however Islamic State has not claimed responsibility.

Jabbar was wearing full body armour and armed with an assault rifle.

After ramming scores of people, Jabbar reportedly exited the truck and opened fire on the crowd and police.

The suspect was then gunned down by police and died at the scene.

Fourteen people died in the incident, not including Jabbar.

Authorities have said they believe it was a terror related event.

Just hours later the Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

US President Joe Biden has said that a link between the Las Vegas and New Orleans was being investigated but had not been confirmed.

The truck can be seen on Canal Street near Bourbon Street. Picture: BBC.

Teh truck then turned onto the footpath to head down Bourbon Street. Picture: BBC.

CCTV footage from early on Wednesday, published by the BBC, shows the pick-up truck driving slowly down Canal Street, a major thoroughfare in the bustling French Quarter.

It then reaches the intersection of Bourbon Street, a narrow street lined with historic buildings filled with bars and restaurants.

A police car and temporary barricades are blocking the road.

The pick-up then mounted the footpath by a Walgreens pharmacy where the first pedestrians were hit.

After squeezing between the police car and shop, the pick-up then speeds off down Bourbon Street.

Another camera picked up the truck speeding down Bourbon Street itself.

On Bourbon St, people led as the car (above) approached. Picture: BBC.

One woman came within inches of being hit. Picture: BBC.

Pedestrians can been seen on the roadway as well as the footpath of the street which was closed off to traffic.

People then start scattering as the white truck hurtles down the street.

One woman dressed in a white coat leaps onto the footpath, seemingly escaping impact by just inches.

“It was just scary, I cried my eyes out honestly,” tourist Ethan Ayersman, 20, told AFP in New Orleans.

He was among the masses visiting the colourful southern US city for New Year’s celebrations and had been on Bourbon Street into the early hours.

Police and investigators beside the vehicle driven by Shamsud-Din Jabbar in his attack on revellers in New Orleans.

Picture of deceased New Orleans terror attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar while in the Army. Picture: 82nd Airborne Division.

Later on, Mr Ayersman said his brother woke him up after hearing gunshots and a car speeding.

From the window of their nearby rental, they could see “some of the bodies that were being lined up,” he said.

Among the dead was Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, who graduated high school last year and was to begin a nursing program this month, US media reported.

Reggie Hunter, a 37-year-old warehouse manager and father of two from Baton Rouge, was also killed in the attack, the New York Times reported.

The newspaper also identified Tiger Bech, a former football player at Princeton University, among those killed.

The Pentagon said Jabbar had served in the Army as a human resources specialist and an IT specialist from 2007 to 2015, and then in the army reserve until 2020.

He deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 until January 2010, an army spokesman said.

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