Watch Live: Officials give update on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, attack that killed 10 and injured dozens
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Officials in New Orleans are holding a news conference on an attack on Bourbon Street that killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others in the early hours of New Year's Day as revelers were celebrating.
A man drove around barricades and hurtled down Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter in "very intentional behavior," New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said earlier Wednesday.
"He was hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did," Kirkpatrick said.
The man who plowed a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year's Day posted audio recordings online in early 2024 expressing his religious beliefs and describing music as the "voice of Satan." He made no mention, however, of plans for violence or affiliations with extremist groups in the recordings.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies have warned about the risk of "copycat or retaliatory attacks" after a man drove a rented pickup truck through a crowd of New Year's revelers on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, killing 14 people before he was shot dead in a firefight with police.