Enhanced security planned for Houston Marathon
FBI Houston revealed that investigators found bottles of commercially available sulfuric acid in a storage unit linked to Bourbon Street attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
After a truck drove into a crowd on New Year's in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the FBI has continued to look into the man Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
The FBI has also revised the number of people injured in terrorist Shadsud-Din Jabbar’s attack, increasing the number to from 37 to 57.
AT FIVE, WE ARE GETTING NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE SUSPECT IN THE BOURBON STREET TERROR ATTACK AND THOSE STILL GRIEVING AND RECOVERING AFTER THE TRAGEDY, THE FBI NOW SAYS 57 PEOPLE WERE HURT WHEN A TOTAL OF 136 PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED.
The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Germany, just hours before carrying out his own attack on Bourbon Street, according to the FBI.
Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city's famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany,
The FBI is revealing new details in their investigation as they try to determine what motivated a Houston man to drive his car into a crowd in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring 57 others on New Year's Day.
"Someone on Bourbon Street, who we have no reason to believe was involved ... "The same field tests were done in Houston, at Jabbar's residence, and that tested as true RDX." Jackson noted that authorities believe additional tests will show that the ...
The attack on Bourbon Street "struck me as being particularly reminiscent of ISIS advice,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project.
The New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street has led some residents to call for better security for pedestrians in the French Quarter. Some even want parts of the Quarter to be pedestrian-only — no cars allowed.