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This picture taken from a balcony of the Royal Sonesta New Orleans hotel shows law enforcement gathering around the suspect pickup truck. Paul S.The new year was just three hours old when a pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street – the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The truck quickly turns onto Bourbon Street and around a patrol vehicle. Footage captured two blocks north of Canal Street shows bystanders rushing to a victim as uniformed officers confront the driver. New Orleans officials urged tourists to continue enjoying the city but steer clear of Bourbon Street.

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☆ How the New Orleans truck attack unfolded on the famous Bourbon Street
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-03 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The Sugar Bowl college football game between Notre Dame and the University of Georgia was postponed Wednesday and rescheduled for Thursday after the truck attack on Bourbon Street. The truck quickly turns onto Bourbon Street, appearing to maneuver around a patrol vehicle with its lights flashing. Lying in her hotel room above Bourbon Street, April McGee thought the sound of chaos below was fireworks, she told WDSU. In New Orleans, officials urged tourists to carry on, to enjoy the city but to steer clear of Bourbon Street. Matthias Hauswirth of New Orleans prays on the street near the scene of Wednesday's truck attack.

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Indeed, surveillance footage on Bourbon Street showed the pickup truck driving over one such barrier, which was not erect at the time of the incident, and speeding away after, narrowly missing partygoers. It should always be blocked off at nighttime because something like this could have happened.”Tourist walk past temporary barriers on Bourbon Street on January 2. On Google Maps Streetview, images of Bourbon Street show that there are also bollard systems on the ground. “Bourbon Street itself is not a pedestrian area,” she said. Ensuring a road like Bourbon Street is secure is a balancing act, CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst Charles Ramsey said Thursday.

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And NBC News went back to high school — with an Olympic gold medalist. There were other possible IEDs planted nearby in the French Quarter, two of which have been rendered safe. The blast is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack, three senior law enforcement members briefed on the matter told NBC News. The pickup truck used in New Orleans and the Tesla in the Las Vegas explosion were rented from the same company, Turo, said officials. He still had two years left of high school.

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Just hours into 2025, an attack in New Orleans killed 15 people and injured dozens more. Authorities have identified the suspect as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, and revealed that his truck flew an Islamic State flag during the attack. He drove his truck, which was flying an ISIS flag, onto a sidewalk and bypassed a police vehicle, officials said. The FBI revealed that Jabbar also had weapons and a possible improvised explosive device in his truck, which was rented. Eyewitnesses recalled "bodies and screams" in the moments after the attack, which took place in the city's French Quarter.

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☆ Visual timeline: What happened in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-02 | by ( Caroll Alvarado | Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Using surveillance footage and witness video and accounts, CNN has pieced together a visual timeline of the attack. Around 3:16 a.m., a white pickup truck was captured on a surveillance camera driving northwest on Canal Street toward the intersection with Bourbon Street. WVUEPanic and fear surged through the crowd as the driver accelerated down Bourbon Street, ramming into more pedestrians. A group of law enforcement officers rush down Bourbon Street after appearing to receive a call about the attack. Law enforcement officers rush past several bodies, which CNN has blurred, that lay on Bourbon Street after the attack.

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☆ New Orleans was partway through replacing its street barriers, leaving a fatal opening
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-02 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New Orleans was removing and replacing traffic bollards around the site of the mass killing there on New Year's Day. AdvertisementConcept image of the replacement bollards due to be installed on Bourbon Street. When they were placed around Bourbon Street in December 2017, NOLA.com reported that they were part of a $40 million safety plan to block intersections during special events. At the time of Wednesday's attack, Bourbon Street was partway through a New Orleans' Bollard Assessment and Replacement Project, which started in mid-November 2024. "This person was ready to inflict pain and death and harm on crowds in Bourbon Street, and I think he would have tried to find whatever way that he could," she said.

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“Bollards were not up because they are near completion, with the expectation of being completed before the Super Bowl,” she said. Investigators at the scene after a person drove a vehicle into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday. Video of the attack appeared to show the driver turning right off Canal Street and onto Bourbon Street, stopping just before Conti Street. Bollards on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Feb. 16, 2021. The engineer said that when the bollards were originally installed several years ago, hydraulic roadblocks were added during construction to ensure Bourbon Street remained protected.

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