At least 10 people were killed and 35 were injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter on New Year’s Day.

The suspect is dead.

The incident occurred around 3:15 a.m. at Bourbon and Iberville streets near the end of New Year’s celebrations and hours before the AllState Sugar Bowl at the Caesars Superdome.

The suspect fired on officers, injuring two of them after crashing the vehicle. The two officers are reported to be in stable condition. The FBI is leading the investigation. The FBI says its investigating attack as “act of terrorism.”

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Latest from FBI just now: The suspect was a US citizen from Texas, in a rented truck, with an ISIS flag in the vehicle.

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An American acting alone is what I was waiting to hear.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fatalities-car-reportedly-plows-group-114235670.html

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Shamsud Din Jabbar seems to be the name.

Here’s a good place for live updates

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/live-update-new-orleans-attack/article_dc15c750-c855-11ef-8f68-93e4d0b4450e.html

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11 a.m. - The suspect accused of plowing a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street is 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, according to a law enforcement source.

The source said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck.

Pardon me if I’ll wait for some corroboration on that one before I play blame the Muslim.

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I’m just glad it wasn’t the Irish again. As long as they walk freely amongst us, no federal building is safe.

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My family heavily identifies as Irish-American, and most of them are racist as fuck. They get absolutely roiled when I turn their absurd rhetoric around on them.

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NOLA.com is the local news outlet in New Orleans. Good paper.

CBS is reporting the same thing.

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From the same source? Because it doesn’t matter whether the paper is good or if more than one outlet is reporting it if it’s all from one bad source.

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I’m sure they’ll call it an act of terrorism, but the dude who chased the reporter the other day for miles to strangle him and tell him this is Trump’s America is going to be made head of Homeland Security.

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Was it a Tesla?

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EV’s do have a lot if torque.

Hate to see if used to kill innocent people though.

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Too soon, my lemming.

Edit: people downvote the comment I’m responding to, and downvote mine for calling it out. Which side are we on here, I’m confused…

Edit edit: what is even happening? Where did I go wrong?

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