
New Orleans attacker opened fire on police before they shot and killed him, bodycam video shows
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The ISIS-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Year's Day in New Orleans fired at police from inside his vehicle before officers fatally shot him, police bodycam footage released Friday shows.
"They killed the terrorist...They are national heroes," New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said of the officers at a news conference.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar had driven his white F-150 around a police car blockading the entrance of Bourbon Street, the city's most famous thoroughfare, and plowed into revelers at about 3:15 a.m. on New Year's Day, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more.

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