NOLA Terrorist Acted Alone | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 01.05.25
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
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The FBI now says the NOLA terrorist did not have help, but that it was a terrorist attack 100% inspired by the Islamic State Group.
In the midst of New Year’s celebrations, a 10-year-old Florida girl is killed by a stray bullet.
Update in the case of missing 2-year-old Kahleb Collins. Wendy Bailey, the boy's mother has been arrested after graphic images of abuse are uncovered.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Jennifer Gould, a change in theory by the FBI |
| 0:08.0 | about the 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans on New Year's Day. |
| 0:17.6 | Here's Christopher Rea with the FBI's counterterrorism division at the news conference. |
| 0:23.1 | First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point. This was an act of terrorism. |
| 0:29.7 | It was premeditated and an evil act. But at this point, currently, and this is another |
| 0:36.1 | position, another fact I want to be clear on, we do not assess at this point, currently, and this is another position, another fact I want to be clear on, |
| 0:38.7 | we do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack, |
| 0:46.7 | except for Shamsuddin Jabbar, the subject you've already been briefed on. |
| 0:51.9 | Initially, authorities suspected that Shamsuddin Jabbar had accomplices to orchestrate |
| 0:57.8 | the attack. |
| 0:58.9 | Jabbar, who was shot and killed by police after firing on officers, steered a rented truck |
| 1:04.5 | around a police blockade and onto the sidewalk early Wednesday morning plowing into pedestrians |
| 1:10.5 | celebrating on Bourbon Street. |
| 1:13.0 | The rampage turned the festive area of the French Quarter into a scene of devastation with victims left bloodied and mangled and others scrambling for safety. |
| 1:23.4 | The FBI has labeled the attack a premeditated act of terrorism, saying Jabbar was 100% inspired by the Islamic State group. |
| 1:34.2 | Investigators found an Islamic State flag on the truck and discovered multiple improvised explosives, |
| 1:41.4 | including remote detonated pipe bombs, hidden in coolers. |
| 1:45.5 | Authorities are also reviewing five videos Jabbar posted on Facebook in the hours before the |
| 1:50.9 | attack in which he pledged his support for the extremist group and hinted at the violence |
| 1:56.7 | he would soon unleash. In the past, he'd also posted about himself on YouTube. Here's a video |
| 2:02.8 | that was uploaded back in 2019. Good evening. I'm Shamsadine Jaborsal. I'm born and raised in Beaumont, |
| 2:08.5 | Texas, and now live in Houston. And I've been here all my life, with the exception of traveling |
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