New Orleans Attacker Had Researched Similar Violent Rampage and How to Access Bourbon St. Balcony

New Orleans Attacker Had Researched Similar Violent Rampage and How to Access Bourbon St. Balcony
Shamsud-Din Jabbar on Burbon St. in New Orleans on Nov. 10, 2024. Federal Bureau of Investigations via AP
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the ISIS terrorist group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city’s famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany, the FBI said.

Nearly two weeks after Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s rampage, the FBI continues to uncover new information detailing the extensive planning by the 42-year-old Army veteran who scouted out the area multiple times in the months leading up to the attack. Authorities have also been piecing together a timeline of his radicalization.