What we know about the assailant in New Orleans truck attack – NBC Chicago

The FBI identified the attacker responsible for a deadly ramming and shooting incident in New Orleans as 42-year-old Shamsud-din Jabbar, who posted videos online expressing support for ISIS prior to the attack. Jabbar rented a truck, drove to New Orleans, and mowed down New Year’s revelers, resulting in fatalities and injuries, before dying in a shootout with police. Authorities found an ISIS flag in his truck and confirmed the incident as an act of terrorism, though his path to radicalization remains unclear.

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