New Orleans attack latest: Royals mourn British man among 14 killed as FBI probe suspect’s travels to Egypt
Authorities confirmed that a British national was among the 14 killed in the New Year’s Day attack
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Your support makes all the difference.Investigators are reportedly looking into the travel history of the suspect in the New Orleans attack, which killed 14 people and injured dozens more just hours into the new year.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen from Texas, traveled to Egypt alone for a month in 2023 and told his family he was going “because it was cheap and beautiful,” his half-brother AbdurJabbar told ABC News.
The FBI is looking into Jabbar’s foreign travel, including what he did and whom he spoke to during his time in Egypt. The federal agency is also trying to determine whether he became radicalized during his trip, the outlet reported.
Authorities recovered an ISIS flag from inside his vehicle.
“This next most important phase of the investigation is to find out how that radicalization happened and if it happened on that trip,” Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams told the network.
The news comes as authorities identified yet another victim: Edward Pettifer, a 31-year-old British national.
“The entire family are devastated at the tragic news of Ed‘s death in New Orleans. He was a wonderful son, brother, grandson, nephew and a friend to so many,” his family said in a statement.
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Recap: Who are the victims of the New Orleans terror attack?
A former Princeton football star. An aspiring nurse. A college freshman. A cherished son. A devoted mom.
These are among the victims of the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that left at least 14 people dead and dozens injured when a 42-year-old Army veteran plowed a truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in what the FBI is investigating as an “act of terrorism.”
With more victims being identified each day since the tragedy, here is a recap of those who have been remembered by loved ones so far:
Ex-Princeton football star and aspiring nurse: Victims of New Orleans terror attack
Here’s everything we know about the victims of the horrific tragedy that left 14 dead on Bourbon Street
63-year-old New Orleans native identified as victim
A 63-year-old New Orleans native has been identified as one of the victims of the New Year’s Day atrocity.
Terrence Kennedy, affectionately known as “Terry” by his loved ones, had gone to Bourbon Street to enjoy a drink to ring in the new year, his niece told the Times-Picayune.
Kennedy, one of nine children, was “just enjoying his city and not bothering nobody,” Monisha James said, adding that her uncle was “the nicest person in the world.”
He grew up in Uptown New Orleans and was a graduate of Walter Cohen High School. His family said he was a fan of NFL football and his favorite team was the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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The wife of the Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger left him just days before he detonated the vehicle outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, according to a report.
The active-duty Green Beret had argued with his wife after she told him she suspected he had been cheating, the New York Post reports, citing law enforcement sources.
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The active-duty Green Beret had argued with his wife after she told him she suspected he had been cheating, according to the report
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The New Orleans attacker was inspired by ISIS. Is the group a threat in the US?
Despite the New Orleans attack, experts don’t see an elevated threat from ISIS — instead, it’s a steady threat that never left, Richard Hall writes.
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Amazon worker injured in New Orleans attack denied time off from work to recover
An Amazon worker who was among the dozens of victims injured in the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street says that the retail giant refused her request for time off so that she could recover.
Alexis Scott-Windham, 23, was shot and had her foot run over by Shamsud-Din Jabbar as she tried to get out of the way of his speeding vehicle.
According to NOLA.com, Scott-Windham needs to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot, but the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
She worries she'll have to find a new job once she's recovered. "Other than that, I'm just thankful to be here," Scott-Windham told the outlet. "I just want to tell my story to everybody. I don't want to take life for granted. It's really opened my eyes."
Turo CEO ‘outraged’ by abuse of car-rental platform
The CEO of car-rental company Turo – where both Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger rented their vehicles – says he is “outraged” by the abuse of the platform.
In an updated statement on Friday, Andre Haddad said the company had spent “tense, mournful hours” assisting law enforcement with their investigations and “working around the clock to figure out how our platform could be misused by the perpetrators of such atrocities.”
“Thinking about the victims and their families, I’m shocked, saddened, and, more than anything else, just simply heartbroken. Their stories are crushing. Their loss is unfathomable and unfair,” he said. “Thinking about how egregiously the two individuals who perpetrated these heinous crimes abused our platform, I’m outraged.”
New Orleans Council to run ‘deep dive investiagtion’ into missing Bourbon Street bollards
The New Orleans City Council is set to do a “deep-dive investigation” into why the security bollards on Bourbon Street were missing the morning of the attack.
“We have had some contradictory messages internally as far as when the work was awarded and when it should have started, and I know from my perspective as the incoming Council president, we are going to do our own deep-dive investigation over the coming weeks to go into that,” Councilman JP Morrell told CNN on Friday morning.
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