What we know about the timeline of the New Orleans terror attack

enero 3, 2025

Here’s what we know about the timeline of the New Orleans terror attack

Alright, well, good morning. um, I first wanna start off uh by reminding the citizens of Louisiana that as you travel around the state you’ll see the flags, uh, of all state buildings at half-mast in honor of, um, those lives that were lost. It is horrific act of violence. Um, I also think that it’s important, uh, to remember that what happened yesterday. Uh, was akin to those who are old enough to remember jigsaw puzzles. And that you would take *** 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and you empty the box and you’ve got to start sifting through those pieces uh and you wanna start if you’re real good you start at the corners, right? Try to put your corners together. And from yesterday. Uh, to today, over 1000 law enforcement agents and officers, men and women have been pouring over countless amounts of data, of videos of surveillances, interviews, tracking down every possible lead that came to us. Whether it was the New Orleans Police Department, the Louisiana State Police, the FBI, or other. Federal agencies also yesterday we declared we I issued an emergency declaration that declaration was meant to streamline resources and communications between state local. And federal partners. And we’re seeing the results of it. I also would like to remind everyone that what’s going on in the city and the state is twofold. We’ve got an active criminal investigation going on while we’re also continuing to secure the city in preparation for 3 o’clock kickoff time. For the Sugar Bowl With that, I would also remind. Those who are in the city that as far as state resources are concerned we have the Louisiana State Police, the Louisiana National Guard, which was part of that emergency declaration which allowed us to put an entire MP company on the ground. Those become force multipliers is what we call that in law enforcement in the military that helps to add to the resources that we have. Wildlife and Fisheries, the Department of Corrections, DSF DHS. Our veterans affairs, our probation and parole, all state agencies, any state agency who has *** post certified offices are here in the city to help secure the city. Uh, and so with that I would like to turn it over to Christopherrea who is the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter in um terrorism division, Chris. Thank you, Governor Landry. Good morning. I am uh FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Reya. I’m from our counterterrorism division at headquarters. I’m also joined by Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alicia Duncan from our New Orleans office, who you heard from yesterday. I’m here to discuss not only the latest investigative information we have here in New Orleans, but I’ll also let you know about other investigative activities outside of the state. I first and most importantly want to send our deepest condolences to the victims of this horrific attack and their loved ones. 14 innocent victims were killed in this senseless attack and at least 35 were injured. We cannot ease the grief people in this community and across the nation are feeling at this time, but rest assured we stand with you and in support of you all the resources and I’m gonna go into that *** little bit, uh, *** little bit later all the resources of the FBI are being focused on tracking down every piece of evidence, every lead, every interview every potential uh every every potential lead we’ve got. Well, I won’t be able to answer all your questions today, my goal is to be as forthcoming as possible with you on what we’ve uncovered so far. First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point. This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act. This was obviously *** critical incident and with that lots of information and tips come pouring in from law enforcement first responders and the public. We have been aggressively running down these tips and information as you all know that takes time and we will continue to do so until every lead has been followed through on. This investigation is only *** little more than 24 years old, so 24 hours old, so I ask you to keep in mind, uh, that as I go through some of the specifics later. But at this point, currently, and this is another position another fact I want to be clear on. We do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack except for Shamsa Din Jabbar, the subject you’ve already been briefed on. *** little bit about what the FBI is doing so we are surging people and assets to the area from across the region and across the nation. Special agents in multiple field offices across the country have been deployed and are assisting with potential aspects of this investigation and following up on every lead. Additional teams of special agents, professional staff, and victim specialists continue to arrive to provide more investigative power and assistance to the victims and their families. We’ve also forward deployed *** number of our critical incident response group assets including members of our hostage rescue team, special agent bomb technicians, and crisis management coordinators. In addition, we have deployed more evidence response technicians to continue to process the various scenes that we have. So far we have received just over 400 tips from the public and that information is being followed up on both on both here in New Orleans and across the country. Some of the the tips are here in New Orleans and there are other tips in other states across the country that we’re following up on. The FBI team and our law enforcement partners here are also reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance and other video from both the French Quarter and other locations. As for *** timeline, At this point, investigators believe Jabbar picked up the rented F-150 in Houston, Texas on December 30th. He then drove from Houston to New Orleans on the evening of the 31st, and he posted several videos to an online platform proclaiming his support for ISIS. There were 5 videos posted on Jabbar’s Facebook account which are time stamped beginning at 1:29 a.m. and the last at 3:02 a.m. In the first video, Jabbar explains he originally planned to harm his family and friends but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the quote war between the believers and the disbelievers, end quote. Additionally, he stated he had joined ISIS before this summer. He also provided *** will and testament. FBI and ATF. FBI, we, we have *** couple different scenes, uh, at the location as you, as you, we have released the scene at Bourbon Street, uh, that scene has been released. Um, we also have *** scene off *** off *** Mandeville address where we’re currently searching that that scene right now. FBI and ATF agents have secured that house and that location is being searched for potential evidence. On New Year’s morning Jabbar Opened fire after ramming through *** blocked off area of Bourbon Street, used his truck as *** weapon to run over the victims. Teams of specially trained victim specialists again, as I said, are on the ground here in New Orleans assisting survivors of the attacked and loved ones of the deceased. We do not believe the public is in any danger around any of these locations. Three phones linked to Jabbar have been recovered and digital media exploitation is *** priority to see what is on the devices and determine if there are any other potential leads. Additionally, we have recovered 2 laptops and are currently reviewing them for any potential leads. Those laptops were recovered at the Mandeville address. Evidence technicians will also be going over the F-150 truck Jabbar was driving. As you know, we recovered an ISIS flag from the back of the vehicle. Jabbar declared his support for the terrorist group on social media, as I stated before, as he made his way to New Orleans. FBI bomb technicians also recovered two IEDs in coolers, one from the cross section of Bourbon and Orleans Street, and the second at an intersection approximately 2 blocks away. There were multiple reports of other devices. Those reports turned out to be misinformation or not, not, not actual functioning devices. Those are the only two devices that we’ve been able to recover that were functional. Both devices were rendered safe on scene. We did obtain surveillance footage showing Jabbar placing the devices where they were found. Two other item, two other, as I said before, 2 other items of interest were determined not to be IEDs. *** little bit about your bar. Jabbar himself was born in the United States and is *** US military veteran. We are looking in everything in his life while we have interviewed many people who know Jabbar, we still need to talk to others. Whether you know Jabbar personally, worked with him, served in the military, or saw him in New Orleans or Texas, we need to talk to you. You may not think you have relevant information, but what you know could tie in to one of our investigative leads. Specifically, we want to talk to anyone who was in the French Quarter on New Year’s Eve or early on New Year’s Day. That includes people spotted near one of the two IEDs on Bourbon Street. The I that include the the IED was inside *** cooler and many people stopped and looked at the cooler and then continued on their way. Let’s be clear again, we do not believe at this point these people are involved in this incident in any way. We want to speak to them as witnesses and want to know what they saw and when. I went down to the crime scene last night. It is very hard to put into words. What it looked like and how difficult it was to see. Anyone with information can call us at 1-800-CALL-FBI or send digital tips to FBI.gov/bourbonstreetattack. Early this morning, evidence response teams finished their work at the crime scene. Bourbon Street has been turned over to the city of New Orleans. As you know, there’s also an FBI investigation in Las Vegas. We are following up on all potential leads and not ruling everything out, however. At this point there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas and again I’ll preface as I close, I’ll preface everything with what I started with in the beginning which was this is very early in an investigation like this. Again, our thoughts and prayers, our thoughts and our prayers are with the victims of this tragedy and everyone impacted across the country. They remain at the heart of our investigation. I also, although I’ve only been on the ground here *** short time, I also want to express the sincere appreciation for our partners here which include the US Attorney’s office, HSI. ATF, the New Orleans PD, the Louisiana State Police, the governor’s office, and countless others. At this point I’m gonna turn it over to the special agent in charge of ATF here, Josh Jackson. Hey, good afternoon. As stated, my name is Joshua Jackson. I am the special agent in charge for the ATF New Orleans Field Division, and ATF’s primary mission is preventing, reducing, and solving violent crime throughout the United States and abroad. Um, solving part is the focus of this investigation. ATF resources that have been brought to bear to the city and, uh, to focus with our federal, state and local partners have been our national response team. We spoke about the scene that’s still being processed now. The national response team of ATF is *** team of certified fire investigators, certified exp explosive specialists, fire engineers, electrical engineers, these folks will give us, uh, additional investigative leads to help the investigative team. Identify uh what happened at the location in Mandeville and identify how that uh fire started and move the investigation forward from there. Additional resources that ATF has brought to bear into the city as our ATF special response team. This is *** tactical team capable hand handling. Uh, any sort of enforcement operation, this team is deployed on set and ready for the Sugar Bowl today. This team is also made available to the, uh, Louisiana State Police and also New Orleans Police Department to assist with any any efforts that they they may have, uh, during this period. Additional resources, as the governor alluded to, he executed executive powers and had an emergency declared to where we were able, ATF was able to tap in. To assist emergency support function 13 resources this allowed us to bring additional explosive detection K9s so that we can safely sweep the city and safely sweep the Super Bowl in preparation for the game today. Uh, these resources will still be in the city as we lead up to, uh, and up to the, uh, Super Bowl and through Mardi Gras. These type of ATF resources will be here. The last resources ATF has brought to bear the probably the most important one. There’s our victim witness coordinators, these folks come in and they provide resources to the victims and the family members that have suffered greatly during this tragedy. The entire city hurts, but the victims and the family members are are in need of resources and and care long after this investigation wraps up this time next year it’d be hard for the families and friends, uh, who suffered during this event. So our victim witness coordinators are working with the FBI, the city of New Orleans coordinators to uh provide resources uh to these folks out here and as we move forward, ATF will be committed. We will work with the investigative team moving this investigation forward, but also we’ll be here to make sure the city is safe and and prepared as we move into the Super Bowl with that, I’m gonna turn it over to our mayor of this great city, New Orleans, Madam Mayor, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Well, good morning, uh, once again, and I just want to, uh, just echo my thank yous to the unified command of our law enforcement partners and at every single level federal, state, and governor Governor, thank you for your partnership. Thank you. I also want to thank the residents and the visitors of the city of New Orleans for your patience, for your support, and most of all, your prayers. Our hearts and prayers continue to go out to the victims’ families. And um. The city of New Orleans, we’re resilient. And as I stated on yesterday, my focus in terms of *** priority has been on our victims. As you’ve heard that yes, the FBI was able to clear uh Bourbon Street and what that meant also for me in this city. Was that we were able to remove our victims. Identify them and notify their families. Real reverence they mattered. The families matter and matter to the city of New Orleans. In addition, uh, to that. I want to just thank again. Our federal partners in Washington listening to my plea personally for the additional resources to allow for the scene to be cleared and again attending to our victims. I’ll walk by each one. And I did the sign across in my own way, because reverence again is important. So while we have been able to have Bourbon Street returned back to the city of New Orleans and the due diligence has been done, that then allowed me to give the go ahead to begin the cleaning of Bourbon Street. That started happening in the morning about 2 a.m. it was completed before 8 a.m. this morning, but that has really set the tone, I would say, and with the confidence that I have in the law enforcement partners, all of the resources that have been activated, uh, how we have made sure that safety continues to be our top priority, how our assets have been. Uh deployed strategically again for the safety and the protection of our visitors and our residents in the city, and because of that. The confidence is there to reopen Bourbon Street to the public prior to game uh time today. Uh, the first order will be to allow for uh vendors to come in and service the businesses that’s important in order for us to stand up activation as you know, governor. And so with that I want to reassure the public that the city of New Orleans is not only ready for game day today but we’re ready to continue to host large scale events in our city because we are built to host at every single turn. I want to again thank all of those who responded to the FBI’s call for information and tips as you heard, that has been useful. Continue to do that. The investigation is still active and absolutely under. The FBI’s leadership, we will continue to operate uh and cooperate uh as we always have so I want to also uh thank uh all of our partners for the added uh resources for victim and crisis management. Uh, we know that that’s again important working with our partner, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, we have set up *** fund for our victims’ families for not only today but into the future as you heard, this is going to be *** long process for our people. So with that, the city of New Orleans and with all of my confidence we are ready and we could not get here again without the unified presence, support and cooperation we are stronger together and I wanna say again thank you so much. Thank you Governor. So once again the governor would like me to reiterate that Bourbon Street uh will be prepared for full activation before game time today. We know 3 p.m. so we’re working towards 2:30. Uh, PM, but prior to, uh, game time, the kick off Bourbon Street will be uh restored, so we’re hard at work now. Our teams are now and of course working with our business community to serve our public and serve our residents and our visitors alike. Um, In closing, uh, I wanna rest people assured that right now in the city of New Orleans there’s an unprecedented amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized to close out and to hunt down and to finalize this investigation. I wanna thank the FBI and all of our federal partners, uh, for the amount of resources they have poured into the city. This type of event can happen in any city. And that’s the tragedy of it, and I think it’s important for people to understand. That to protect our citizens in America from evil you have to crush it. You can’t go out there and placate it. You can’t go out there and say, oh, I’m gonna put this in place and that in place and hope that evil doesn’t show up on your doorstep because it will. You have to crush it and that’s what we’re gonna do here we’re gonna put it all behind us. We’re gonna continue to keep. The victims, those that are in the hospital, uh, either fighting for their lives or trying to recover, uh, in our thoughts and in our prayers. Um, but you know this morning, and I don’t wanna. Um, single out just one news source, but I just happened to turn on Fox and Friends and I was *** young man. Who was interviewed who was actually on Bourbon Street, um, during this horrific. Uh, act of terrorism. And um they closed out by asking him what now? And I think he summed it up he said, look, we can’t live in fear. Because fear will paralyze us. He said we come down to the city to enjoy ourselves and to entertain ourselves and to be with our friends and with our families because that’s who we are. Louisiana invented hospitality. The people of this city care for each other. And believe you me, we care about each one of the lives that were lost in the city and that we will never forget them. But it would be *** tragedy. If we let their losses. Be snuffed out because of fear this city will be back. We’ll be open to family and friends and loved ones who want some time to relax from the pressures of life and so today uh we’re gonna have us *** sugar bowl um we’re gonna enjoy ourselves. We’re gonna keep uh those uh again um who have lost loved ones in, in mind and we’re gonna get on to the business of this city and this great country with that I’ll take any questions. Governor, this is for you and the assistant director. The message has really changed since yesterday. Yesterday, the FBI said that people should be vigilant, that he did not act alone, that he likely had help, and now you’re coming out the very next day and saying he was *** lone wolf, everything is safe. The game moves on, everybody had *** good time. How can you be so sure just 12 hours later? Well, well, uh, we’re gonna bring him up. Alright, but here’s what I want. I, I wanna remind everyone like I worked it. I was *** deputy sheriff, right? I worked in *** jail. I worked on the street. I worked on the interstate, um, I served warrants. I can tell you, look, in today’s world, I get it. In information, um, we get information like that everybody lives in *** 15 2nd TikTok video. Uh, we think that life operates like it does, um, on our phones and it just doesn’t. Information changes. In fact, that’s why we ask the media for patience. We get information like I said, putting it no one dumps *** 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and puts it together in 5 seconds, OK? And, and what I would tell you is that I would rather, I appreciate the fact that what we did was. We’re under promising and over delivering today and I think that’s important um and I wanna reme I wanna remind something look because over the last decade law enforcement has taken it on the chin. Unfairly and there are great men and women serving in the FBI in ATF in Louisiana State Police in New Orleans PD our sheriffs have been unbelievable in this, um, and I, I tell you they want to protect you all and we have to trust them. And sometimes the information we put out we end up finding out that it may be incorrect but guess what what we’re doing what we’re doing here is something I think is important it’s called transparency look something may change again here’s what I do know though right now this is one of the safest places on Earth. That doesn’t mean that nothing can’t happen. Thank you Governor and, and to echo exactly I think the governor put it, uh, put it eloquently as as Khabib said in *** lot of these instances I also had the opportunity to deploy *** boss bomb and I will tell you this is almost carbon copied *** boss bomb as, as, as far as the the inaccurate reporting that comes up and what the governor said is we want to be transparent with the public. Years of the FBI not being transparent, we’re being as transparent as we possibly can unfortunately as we’re being transparent, unfortunately for the. That there is some information that we have to go back and and and recorrect and in this particular incident you heard the resources that we’ve brought that the other state and locals have brought we’ve had 24 hours now to go through media, to go through phones to interview people, to uh analyze those videos, analyze uh other other databases, and, and after all of that there’s been hundreds and hundreds of leads done just in 24 hours. We’re confident at this point. That there’s no accomplices and I’ll give you an idea of of of of how that um information sometimes um *** lot of the early reports came out that there were people that extra people that were setting the coolers down, right? Um, it turns out those were just patrons on the street that were looking, looking inside the coolers, right? We didn’t know that at first, so we had to kind of track all that down and put that to rest. So that’s just an example, one of the pieces of information, but there were other pieces of information that after we got our feet under us *** little bit and on the ground here, uh, we were able to put together *** much more accurate picture of the subject and his attention to 15. 13 and then the shooter himself would be 15 total to include the shooter IEDs, the IEDs were the IEDs pipe bombs and have you discovered *** remote detonator and when you said that he surveillance footage of the suspect planting those IEDs, what time roughly were they? Yeah, those, uh, roughly *** couple hours. I don’t have the exact times in front of me, *** couple hours prior to the attack, probably after midnight, after I want to say 1 or 2 in the morning, but I can’t. Correct. That, that’s our assumption now. I mean, we still have *** lot to work through. We, we’re getting more surveillance video and everything else, but that’s, that’s the assumptions being done on Bourbon Street, there, there have been canines out on New Year’s Eve. Would there have been bomb sweeps? Look, I think, I think, let, let me just say this, and, and either Joe or Bob or correct me. Look, uh, um, uh, *** Bob *** bomb dog doesn’t operate like *** drug dog, right? Um, uh, they on Bourbon Street there’s *** lot of sense, right, *** lot of smells, um, I don’t think you can run *** bomb dog down Bourbon Street with thousands of people there and be able to sniff out, uh, *** bomb. Um, what we’ve been doing, uh, what they have been doing, uh, it’s certainly *** complete sweep of the quarter, uh, because of the limited amount of traffic, uh, that’s been out there, um, let me just say this I think. This may help. It would be my hope, um, that as uh some additional time goes through, uh, maybe, uh, closer to maybe the beginning of next week we will, um, if we’ve got it. To what extent buttoned up as we could, uh, I would, um, work with the FBI and and the city and maybe we can come up with *** timeline to be able to get you those informations kinda walk everyone through from day one through. I think it is, it’s, it’s extremely premature and you’re really putting us on some speculative grounds, uh, to ask some of those questions because again it’s only been 24 hours. I mean, can you imagine how far we’ve come in 24 hours, so I was oh well we’ll go one at *** time. Being done to make Bourbon Street safer tonight than it was New Year’s Eve. We temporary bombers being brought in to block off the street and why weren’t those used on New Year’s Eve? Well, well, look, here’s what I’m gonna say. Every time Some bad guy Does something like this. There’s what we call an after action review because again. Um Nothing is 100%. Uh, we have reinforced the area. Um, uh, we have deployed some additional types of assets. Um, I personally, they, it’s up to the city or other, I don’t like to give specifics because I don’t like to tell emy what we got, but I can tell you we’re in better shape than we were before. You have to the scene and some neighbors at at that site told us they smelled smoke early in the morning. Was there *** fire there? Any kind of burning happening? Yeah. That’s correct. Yeah, I, I’ll move to. I do want to address the suicide vest question. I wanna kill that one right, right away. There was no evidence that the subject was wearing *** suicide events, uh, suicide vest at all. So I will turn the Mandeville stuff over to ATF as to, uh, the, the fire at the Mandeville scene. So our the working theory now is that the fire started after Jabbar was already deceased. There’s *** lot of different ways that could happen. You could have different time devices, you could have ***. Long cord that uh extended that time. You could also have pressure cookers that were put on top of the stove filled with gasoline and then it went off. There’s *** lot of different ways to do it, but that is why our ATF national response team is here to answer those questions and get that investigative lead back, uh, back to our team. So more to come on that. We’re still processing that scene. We’re out there right now. Are you how he became radicalized over all of this time. What brought him to Bourbon Street? Do we understand was there any international travel involved? What led him down this path to the sort of radicalization? Sure, *** lot, *** lot of, uh, *** lot of questions we’re still asking ourselves. Uh, we know that he specifically picked out Bourbon Street, not quite sure why. I mean, I think one can assume that it was lots of people New Year’s Eve, uh, uh, you know, with, uh, you know, ***, ***, ***, *** target for for an attack, um, that’s the stuff in the coming days as far as that path to radicalization that we’re really gonna be digging into and making *** making *** priority, uh, making *** priority of. Um, what I can tell you right now is that he was 100% inspired by ISIS and so we’re digging, we’re digging through more of the social media, more interviews, working with some of our other partners to, to ascertain just how, uh, to, to ascertain *** little bit more about that connection we’re gonna, we’re gonna do one with Kate. Kate’s I prefer. In order to reassure people, would you be able to explain the analysis and evidence um that has led to this most recent understanding that he was *** lone actor and, and that there is at this point, at least from your understanding no further danger to the public. Sure, sure, um, I, I think *** lot of that, uh, multiple interviews, the hundreds, hundreds of interviews that we’ve conducted so far, the social media, um. The social media, um, review that we’ve done of his accounts, the, uh, the what we by my count now the 5 devices we have, the 3 cell phones and the 2 laptops, uh, been able to initially triage or go through that, and there is just nothing to indicate through call records, through anything on those devices, through interviews, through anything in our systems that he was aided. Aided, uh, aided in this attack by anybody and again I have to caveat like the governor said it is 24 hours into it, um, and that could change but right now we’ve got *** much better picture and much more confidence on what we were dealing with than we were just 24 hours ago. All right, look, thank you, thank you all so very much again, again, again, we’re going to try to get y’all as much information as possible, so, uh, uh, any, any additional information will be put out, uh, through press releases. Thank you so very much.

Here’s what we know about the timeline of the New Orleans terror attack

A driver in a truck drove through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the New Orleans French Quarters early New Year’s Day morning, killing at least 14 and injuring 30 people, officials say.The suspect was identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, of Texas. Jabbar picked up the white truck from a car rental facility in Houston on Dec. 30 and traveled to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, officials said in a news conference Thursday. On day one of the investigation, the FBI suspected others were involved but announced Thursday that they believe Jabbar acted alone. Investigators also confiscated three phones and two laptops from a St. Roch Airbnb that Jabbar is connected to, which was the site of a fire Wednesday. Here’s a timeline of what is known so far by authorities and using video footage.Jan. 1Approximately 1 or 2 a.m.: Video reviewed after the terror attack captured Jabbar placing two improvised explosive devices in coolers in the French Quarter, the FBI said in a Thursday news conference. The timing is approximate.1:29 a.m. to 3:02 a.m.: Jabbar posted a series of five videos to Facebook, officials said in a news conference Thursday morning. In the videos, Jabbar said he joined ISIS before the summer and had originally planned to harm family and friends but felt that the news “would not focus on the war between the believers and disbelievers,” officials said.Around 3:15 a.m.: Video footage shows a white truck traveling west on Canal Street turning right onto Bourbon Street by going around a police car that was acting as a barrier and moving straight through a crowd of pedestrians. A short time later, the vehicle crashed into a crane two blocks up Bourbon Street between Bienville and Conti streets. Around 3:17 a.m.: Officers responded to a report that a vehicle drove into a crowd, striking multiple people, on Bourbon Street. Jabbar opened fire on police while driving the truck. He was killed by returning gunfire from police.4:03 p.m.: The Allstate Sugar Bowl announced the game will be rescheduled for 3 p.m. Central/4 p.m. Eastern Thursday.Jan. 22 to 8 a.m.: Officials began cleaning Bourbon Street around 2 a.m. Thursday and completed by 8 a.m.Just before 1 p.m.: Bourbon Street reopens to pedestrians.3 p.m.: The rescheduled Sugar Bowl was scheduled to begin.PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=

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A driver in a truck drove through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the New Orleans French Quarters early New Year’s Day morning, killing at least 14 and injuring 30 people, officials say.

The suspect was identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, of Texas. Jabbar picked up the white truck from a car rental facility in Houston on Dec. 30 and traveled to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, officials said in a news conference Thursday. On day one of the investigation, the FBI suspected others were involved but announced Thursday that they believe Jabbar acted alone.

Investigators also confiscated three phones and two laptops from a St. Roch Airbnb that Jabbar is connected to, which was the site of a fire Wednesday.

Here’s a timeline of what is known so far by authorities and using video footage.

Jan. 1

Approximately 1 or 2 a.m.: Video reviewed after the terror attack captured Jabbar placing two improvised explosive devices in coolers in the French Quarter, the FBI said in a Thursday news conference. The timing is approximate.

1:29 a.m. to 3:02 a.m.: Jabbar posted a series of five videos to Facebook, officials said in a news conference Thursday morning. In the videos, Jabbar said he joined ISIS before the summer and had originally planned to harm family and friends but felt that the news “would not focus on the war between the believers and disbelievers,” officials said.

Around 3:15 a.m.: Video footage shows a white truck traveling west on Canal Street turning right onto Bourbon Street by going around a police car that was acting as a barrier and moving straight through a crowd of pedestrians.

A short time later, the vehicle crashed into a crane two blocks up Bourbon Street between Bienville and Conti streets.

Around 3:17 a.m.: Officers responded to a report that a vehicle drove into a crowd, striking multiple people, on Bourbon Street. Jabbar opened fire on police while driving the truck. He was killed by returning gunfire from police.

4:03 p.m.: The Allstate Sugar Bowl announced the game will be rescheduled for 3 p.m. Central/4 p.m. Eastern Thursday.