States military veteran, ploughed a pick-up truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, US. The suspect, who was killed in a police shootout, has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from the state tigating body has not specified what evidence is being used to make that legal determination. Here’s what we know about the incident, the suspect, and the latest on the ground. What happened in New Orleans and when? At about 3:15am (09:15 GMT) on Wednesday, a rented Ford F-150 pick-up truck drove at high speed into a crowd of New Year’s revellers in New Orleans, according to local police. New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the driver swerved around barricades and was driving at “very high speed” and in a “very intentional” manner. “This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could,” Kirkpatrick told reporters. “He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” she added. After the car stopped, the driver jumped out of the vehicle and fired at responding officers, who shot back and killed him. The FBI said they found an explosive device at the site, but are working to confirm if it is viable or not. Jabbar appears to have rented the F-150 Lightning electric truck from the car rental website Turo, according to broadcaster CNN. Authorities found that the same rental website was linked to an incident on Wednesday in Las Vegas, where a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a Trump hotel. It’s not clear if the two incidents are related. Advertisement Live Sign up EXPLAINER News | Crime Who was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the New Orleans truck attack suspect? The suspect in the car-ramming attack in New Orleans has been identified as a US military veteran from Texas. FBI investigators arrive at the scene where the white Ford F-150 pick-up truck crashed into a work lift after allegedly driving into a crowd of New Year's revellers in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025 [Matthew Hinton/AFP] By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 2 Jan 2025 2 Jan 2025 At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded after a man, identified by the FBI as a United States military veteran, ploughed a pick-up truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, US. The suspect, who was killed in a police shootout, has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from the state of Texas. 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New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the driver swerved around barricades and was driving at “very high speed” and in a “very intentional” manner. “This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could,” Kirkpatrick told reporters. “He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” she added. After the car stopped, the driver jumped out of the vehicle and fired at responding officers, who shot back and killed him. The FBI said they found an explosive device at the site, but are working to confirm if it is viable or not. Jabbar appears to have rented the F-150 Lightning electric truck from the car rental website Turo, according to broadcaster CNN. Authorities found that the same rental website was linked to an incident on Wednesday in Las Vegas, where a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a Trump hotel. It’s not clear if the two incidents are related. 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He graduated from Georgia State University in 2017 earning a degree in computer information systems. The FBI said an ISIL (ISIS) flag was found in the vehicle used in the attack. The bureau is trying to determine if Jabbar was associated with any “terrorist” organisations. New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno said the suspect was dressed in full military gear and police had described his acts as intentional. Court records show Jabbar faced a deteriorating financial situation in 2022 while separating from his then-wife. Jabbar said he was $27,000 behind on house payments, accumulated $16,000 in credit card debt and wanted to quickly finalise the divorce. “I have exhausted all means of bringing the loan current other than a loan modification, leaving us no alternative but to sell the house or allow it to go into foreclosure,” he wrote in a January 2022 email to his now-ex-wife’s lawyer. He also worked with consulting firm Deloitte earning about $10,000 a month. In a statement, Deloitte said Jabbar had “served in a staff-level role” since being hired in 2021 and that the company was doing all it could to assist authorities. “There’s a number of red flags when you look at this [attack], including the attacker’s age – not really the kind of prototype for an individual to be radicalised. The fact that he was in the US military, so I think it bears caution for sure,” said Colin Clarke from Soufan Center, a foreign policy and global security think tank based in New York. And frankly, authorities have not been good with communications. There have been a number of false leaks. Earlier today was revealed that there were more people involved, and then authorities rolled that back,” he told Al Jazeera from Pennsylvania.