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Ali Watkins
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Jan. 1,
2025, 9:56 a.m. ET14 minutes ago
Ali Watkins
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/01/us/new-orleans-vehicle-crash
Here’s
the latest on the attack in New Orleans.
At least
10 people were killed and 30 more were injured after a man drove a pickup truck
into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s
Day, in what city officials called a deliberate attack.
The
driver crashed the truck and then died following a shootout with police
officers, the police said. The F.B.I. said it was investigating the attack as
an act of terrorism.
“It was
very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he
possibly could,” the New Orleans police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, said
in a news conference Wednesday morning. “He was hellbent on creating the
carnage and the damage that he did.”
According
to Ms. Kirkpatrick, the man drove the truck at high speed into crowds around
3:15 a.m. before crashing and opening fire, shooting two police officers.
Investigators said they later found what appeared to be improvised explosive
devices in the truck and were trying to determine whether the devices were
viable.
Officials
urged the public to stay away from a half-mile stretch of Bourbon Street and
surrounding blocks as the F.B.I. investigated.
The attack happened in the area of Canal and Bourbon Streets during New Year’s Eve celebrations, which bring large, raucous crowds to the city’s French Quarter. It also came just hours before college football’s Sugar Bowl, between Notre Dame and the University of Georgia, was scheduled to kick off at the city’s Superdom
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