New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a three-ton pickup through crowds of holiday revelers, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism.
The attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a shootout with police, authorities said.
“He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said.
Using surveillance footage and witness video and accounts, CNN has pieced together a visual timeline of the attack.
Around 10:02 p.m. Tuesday, Jabbar unloaded his rented truck outside an Airbnb rental home in New Orleans’ St. Roch neighborhood, Ring camera footage shared by neighborhood resident Michael Adasko shows. Adasko, who lives next to the home Jabbar rented, said he believes Jabbar checked into the rental home around …