A terrorist killed at least 15 people in the early hours of New Year’s Day Wednesday when he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, an Army vet from Texas, died in a shootout with police that left two officers injured. He was flying an ISIS flag on the rented Ford F-150. The FBI has yet to confirm his possible connections or affiliations with the terrorist group.
The Sugar Bowl college football playoff game between Georgia and Notre Dame, originally scheduled for Wednesday, is set to go on today at 3 p.m. local time at the Caesar Superdome, about 1 mile away from the attack.
FBI Houston completes search of suspect’s neighborhood
The FBI in Houston, Texas, said Thursday morning that it had concluded its search of the last known neighborhood of the suspected terrorist who killed 15 people in New Orleans.
“At approximately 7:50 a.m., FBI Houston and the Harris County Sherriff’s Office concluded a court-authorized search and cleared the 12000 block of Crescent Peak Drive,” FBI Houston wrote on X.
“At this time, there is no threat to residents in that area.”
The alleged mass killer, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was a US-born military veteran who went from success to a squalid trailer park on Crescent Peak Drive in Houston, where sheep roamed his yard.
Sugar Bowl security enhanced to Super Bowl levels: report
Security at the Sugar Bowl will be enhanced to Super Bowl levels of protection in the wake of the horrific New Year’s Day truck-ramming terrorist attack on New Orleans’ iconic Bourbon Street, NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said on the “Today” show.
“We are going to have absolutely hundreds of officers and staff lining our streets,” Kirkpatrick said.
“We are staffing up at the same level, if not more so, than we were preparing for Super Bowl.”
The college football playoff quarterfinal between the Georgia Bulldogs and Notre Dame was originally scheduled to be played in the Super Dome on New Year’s Day, but was postponed to 3 p.m. local time Thursday after the horrendous terrorist attack.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has stated that she would prefer the game be delayed at least until Friday.
