New FBI images show New Orleans terrorist just ONE HOUR before he slaughtered 14 innocent people – and IED-packed cooler
The FBI has released new photos of the New Orleans terrorist, taken just an hour before he rammed his car into New Year’s Eve crowds and slaughtered 14 people.
Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar wreaked havoc on the festivities in the early hours of Wednesday morning when he drove through busy Bourboun Street and targeted pedestrians.
Now, police have shared two new images of him in a brown overcoat walking down Dauphine Street at 2:03 a.m. CST.
Under the jacket he has a dark-colored button-up shirt, blue jeans and dress shoes.
Detectives hope the new photos will spark the memories of people who were in the area and are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Jabbar looks much older and weathered in the new photos, with receding salt and pepper hair and a beard to match.
He wears glasses and holds what appears to be a phone in his hand as he walks through the streets.
The FBI also released images of a cooler filled with IEDs that they say was planted by Jabbar near the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans streets.
Now, police have shared two new images of him in a brown overcoat walking down Dauphine Street at 2:03 a.m. CST
Under the jacket he has a dark-colored button-up shirt, blue jeans and dress shoes
The driver who rammed into pedestrians celebrating the New Year in New Orleans, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, is dead after a shootout with police
Jabbar died during a shootout with police after the disaster.
He had flown an ISIS flag on the rented truck he was using, and had separately planted “remote detonator” explosives in coolers he had strategically placed in the French Quarter.
President Joe Biden held a news conference on Thursday in which he revealed that Jabbar had acted alone in the terror attack in New Orleans.
But federal agents are still investigating any links between Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger, who hours later detonated his own explosives in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
The 37-year-old man reportedly has a military background and served on the same base as Shamsud Din Jabbar (pictured), who fatally struck 15 people in a rental car in the early hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans.
The pair served at the same military base and also served in Afghanistan in 2009, but officials say they have seen no evidence they were in the same facility or unit.
Jabbar is said to have made a series of videos prior to his death in which he revealed that he had made plans to kill his family and described how he had been radicalized by ISIS.
His brother told The New York Times that his brother was a caring man. Abdur Jabbar, 24, from Beaumont, Texas, told the outlet, “[He was] really a sweetheart, a nice guy, a friend, very smart, caring.’
He said his brother converted to Islam at a young age, and that “what he did does not represent Islam. This is more of a form of radicalization, not a religion.”