In the early hours of New Year's Day, Jabbar could be seen on video surveillance placing two containers with explosive devices in the French Quarter, which remained undetonated. Shortly after, at around 3.15am, he sped a white pickup truck around a police blockade on Bourbon Street where partygoers wandered, driving through the revelers before crashing and being killed by police in a shootout. Fifty-seven people were injured in this horrific event.
Nearly two weeks after Shamsud-Din Jabbar's rampage, the FBI continues to uncover new details of the extensive planning by the 42-year-old US army veteran who scouted the area multiple times before the attack and researched various methods for committing the violent act, showing a clear intent to replicate previous attacks, including the one at a Christmas market in Germany.
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