{"id":15953,"date":"2025-01-01T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:37:31","slug":"new-orleans-attack-updates-suspect-identified-as-army-veteran-did-not-act-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15953","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans attack updates: Suspect identified as Army veteran, did not act alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A suspect who was &#8220;hell-bent&#8221; on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year&#8217;s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at a high rate of speed, leaving at least 15 dead and injuring dozens of others early Wednesday, city and federal officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After mowing down numerous people over a three-block stretch on the famed thoroughfare while firing shots into the crowd, the suspect &#8212; identified by sources as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42 &#8212; allegedly got out of the truck wielding an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told ABC News. The FBI does not &#8220;believe Jabbar was solely responsible&#8221; for the incident, which is being investigated as an act of terror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers returned fire, killing Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, sources said. At least two police officers were shot and wounded, authorities said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/orleans-attack-updates-10-dead-171833279.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/orleans-attack-updates-10-dead-171833279.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A suspect who was &#8220;hell-bent&#8221; on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year&#8217;s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at a high rate of speed, leaving at least 15 dead and injuring dozens of others early Wednesday, city and federal officials said.<br \/>\nAfter mowing down numerous people over a three-block stretch on the famed thoroughfare while firing shots into the crowd, the suspect &#8212; identified by sources as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42 &#8212; allegedly got out of the truck wielding an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told ABC News. The FBI does not &#8220;believe Jabbar was solely responsible&#8221; for the incident, which is being investigated as an act of terror.<\/p>\n<p>Officers returned fire, killing Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, sources said. At least two police officers were shot and wounded, authorities said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/orleans-attack-updates-10-dead-171833279.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,53,2148,108,115],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-deaths","tag-new-orleans","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15954,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions\/15954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}