New Orleans Attack, Suspect's Texas Home, Las Vegas Truck Explosion
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Investigators are looking for answers in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
On the Gulf Coast, they identified an attacker who was a veteran from Texas. In Nevada, the question is what made a Tesla Cybertruck explode outside a Trump Hotel.
I'm Leila Fadil, that's Stephen Skiba, and this is Up First from NPR News.
What do police know about the suspect in the attack that killed 15 people on Bourbon Street? The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle. President Biden also said he was inspired by ISIS. So what's that mean? FBI investigators include counterterrorism experts and bomb techs.
And the explosion outside the Vegas hotel involves two big brand names connected by politics.
It's a Tesla truck and we know that Elon Musk is working with President-elect Trump and it's the Trump Tower.
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We'll get up to date now on two incidents in two entertainment districts, an attack in New Orleans and an explosion in Las Vegas.
The Vegas incident involved a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside a Trump Hotel. But first, we hear from New Orleans, where a pickup plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street. Investigators have learned a little more over the past 24 hours.
Let's go to Drew Hawkins once again of Gulf States Newsroom. He's in New Orleans. Welcome back, Drew.
Good morning, Steve.
How does this event look after a day since you last spoke with us here?
Yeah. So at this point, investigators say that the driver crashed through police barricades. Officers opened fire. The driver fired back. Two officers were injured before the driver was shot and killed. The FBI has called it an act of terrorism by an American citizen. And we know that he had an ISIS flag on his truck. Here's President Biden talking about it last night.
The FBI also reported to me that mere hours before the attack, He posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by ISIS, expressing a desire to kill, a desire to kill.
Investigators say that they believe the suspect, Shamsuddin Jabbar, may not have acted alone as well. Biden said law enforcement is looking for possible co-conspirators or associations and officials are urging people who might know anything to come forward. While at this point, Bourbon Street and most of the French Quarter remains off limits. And also yesterday's Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and Georgia was postponed until this afternoon.
I'm just dwelling on the details you give us there. Possible co-conspirators, but we don't really know. The president says inspired by ISIS, which sounds more like an ideological connection. But of course, we don't know that. And we'll be getting in a moment to more details about the individual. What are city officials saying about how the driver got past police, though?
Yeah, so there were automatic bollards installed on Bourbon Street more than a decade ago. And so these are these barriers that go up and down automatically to block off the streets. But they haven't worked in quite some time. So instead, what New Orleans police did was they parked police cruisers at the intersection to prevent traffic from getting in.
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