FBI: Footage Shows New Orleans Suspect Planting IEDs

The FBI recovered video surveillance footage showing New Orleans attack suspect Shamsud Din-Jabbar, 42, placing two coolers containing improvised explosive devices on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street before he drove into a crowd of revelers, killing at least 14, on New Year’s Eve. 

“With multiple reports of other devices, those reports turned out to be misinformation or not actual functioning devices,” Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said in a press conference Thursday. 

The devices in the coolers, he added, “are the only two devices that we’ve been able to recover that were functional. Both devices were rendered safe on scene.”

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