A visual timeline of the New Year’s attack that left at least 15 dead in New Orleans
CNN
New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a pickup truck through crowds of holiday revelers, killng at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of terrorism.
New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a three-ton pickup truck through crowds of holiday revelers, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of terrorism. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a shootout with police, authorities said. “He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said. Using surveillance footage and witness video and accounts, CNN has pieced together a visual timeline of the attack. Around 3:16 a.m., a white pickup truck was captured on a surveillance camera driving northwest on Canal Street toward the intersection with Bourbon Street. At the intersection, the truck makes a sharp right onto the sidewalk, skirting a wall of police cars and other barriers that had been blocking cars from entering Bourbon Street and plowing into a group of people who had been standing on the corner.
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