US Army vet who killed 15 in New Orleans attack was ‘inspired by Isis’
Emergency service vehicles form a security barrier to keep other vehicles out of the French Quarter after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street, January 1, 2025
A US ARMY veteran who drove a pick-up truck into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people, had posted videos on social media hours before saying he was inspired by the Islamic State (Isis).
The FBI said it was investigating Wednesday’s attack, in which the driver steered around a police blockade and slammed into revellers before being shot dead by police, as a terrorist act and did not believe he acted alone.
Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle, which bore the Isis flag, along with other explosive devices elsewhere in the city’s French Quarter.
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