The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Germany, just hours before carrying out his own attack on Bourbon Street, according to the FBI.
Jabbar also searched for past shootings in New Orleans, the city’s famous Mardi Gras celebration and even how to access a balcony on the famed Bourbon Street.
The FBI said an initial review of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, showed that the man conducted extensive online research into New Orleans before the rampage.
Shamsud Din-Jabbar drove his truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day. He was killed in a shootout with police. The FBI described it as a terrorist attack.
The FBI investigated personal devices belonging to the suspect of the Bourbon Street attack, and found eerie evidence within suspect's search history.
The FBI has also revised the number of people injured in terrorist Shadsud-Din Jabbar’s attack, increasing the number to from 37 to 57.
The FBI has released a new photo of New Orleans terrorist attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar as they continue to investigate what motivated his New Year's attack on Bourbon Street.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver behind the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s, researched New Orleans and the deadly Christmas market attack in Germany in the hours and weeks before the attack,
The FBI looked into Jabbar’s internet search history and found he was looking into Bourbon Street balcony access, information on Mardi Gras, and shootings that happened in the city as late as mid-November.
Shamsud-Din Jabbaar came to New Orleans on November 10 by train to look at an apartment for rent on Orleans street in the French Quarter but told the landlord that he changed his mind after applying to rent it.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed a a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people
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