New Orleans attack: FBI believes suspect acted alone in ‘act of terrorism’
by Anna Betts and Alice Herman from US news | The Guardian on (#6T9N6)
Investigators had initially suggested others may have been involved in New Year's Day attack that killed 14 people
The FBI said on Thursday that it now believed the suspect acted alone in an act of terrorism" in the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 and injured dozens more when a man drove a rented pickup into a crowd celebrating on busy Bourbon Street.
The chief suspect, 42-year-old US citizen Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in the attack as he shot at police and was shot dead when officers returned fire, bringing the total deaths from the incident to 15, with more than 35 injured.
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