New Orleans police released a video Friday evening featuring the three officers who shot and killed the man responsible for the deadly Bourbon Street attack on New Year's Day.
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick also identified the officers who fired on the attacker, calling them “national heroes.”
Shock and grief have given way to finger-pointing over whether additional security could have stopped — or mitigated — the recent attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans.
An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left crucial gaps on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day.
The council, in the first of multiple oversight hearings, is expected to hear from NOPD and Department of Public Works officials about planning that preceded the deadly attack, centering around questions of how Jabbar was able to evade defenses to tear down the famous party thoroughfare.
At least two dozen New Orleans terrorist attack victims are filing lawsuits against the city and its police department, according to the law firms representing them.
The Islamic State group-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Year’s Day in New Orleans shot at police from inside his truck before officers fatally shot him, police bodycam footage released Friday shows.
NEW ORLEANS ... into the street barrier systems within and around Bourbon Street, where on New Year's Day an Islamic State group-inspired attacker drove his F-150 truck around a police car ...
Three New Orleans Police Department officers who helped stop a terror attack suspect who plowed down Bourbon Street have opened up about their experience responding to the attack. The NOPD shared a video featuring Jacobie Jordan, Nigel Daggs and Christian Beyers of the Fifth District.
During Saturday's AFC Wild Card game between the Houston Texans and the Los Angeles Chargers, three New Orleans Police Department officers who stopped the Bourbon Street terror suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar,
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick also identified the officers who fired on the attacker, calling them “national heroes.”
Police released body camera footage capturing the deadly confrontation that ended the Bourbon Street terror attack.