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The FBI is investigating the possible connection between the attackers in the two deadly New Year’s attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more after ramming a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday morning after bypassing police lines. Officers do not believe Jabbar acted alone and are investigating whether he had accomplices.

Investigators are now examining the possible connection between Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran, and the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel that occurred just hours earlier. According to local media reports, 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, an Army veteran from Colorado Springs, was reportedly behind the wheel when the vehicle exploded.

According to Denver7 sources, Livelsberger and Jabbar served at the same military base.

President Joe Biden said that Jabbar was “inspired by ISIS” and had a “desire to kill.” He said: “I know that the spirit of our New Orleans will never, ever, never be defeated, even though this person has carried out a terrible attack on the city. It will always shine.”

Attack in New Orleans: “Father of three children and married twice”: report

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, the man who killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more after ramming a truck into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans, had at least three children, according to court records in Texas.

The documents that were first reviewed by the Washington PostShe was also married twice.

The father of three children had two daughters with his ex-wife, the current husband of one of his former partners told the newspaper. They should be 14 and 20 years old.

Jabbar is said to have then remarried, divorcing in 2022. Accordingly, the two have a son together The post.

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 1:40 p.m

Watch: Biden says New Orleans attack suspect was inspired by ISIS

Biden says New Orleans attack suspect was inspired by ISIS

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 1:20 p.m

New Orleans attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar speaks about military experiences in resurfaced video

New Orleans attack suspect speaks about military experience in resurfaced video

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, alleged suspect in a terrorist attack in New Orleans, is filmed discussing his career and military experiences in a resurfaced video. In the video, Jabbar introduces himself as a property manager and says he worked as a human resources and IT specialist in the military for ten years. The FBI identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S. citizen from Texas. Texas state records also show he held a real estate license in that state from 2018 to 2023. Fifteen people were killed and 35 injured when New Year’s revelers were struck by a car on Bourbon Street on January 1.

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 1:00 p.m

After the attack in New Orleans, the British offered support to the British government

The British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has set up a hotline for British nationals following the New Year’s attack in New Orleans.

Following the incident, which occurred on Bourbon Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning and left 15 people dead and dozens more injured, the Foreign Office updated its travel advice for British citizens traveling to or staying in the Louisiana city.

“On January 1, a person drove a vehicle into a crowd in New Orleans,” the website says. “Any British national requiring assistance should call +1 202 588 6500 or visit contact.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/emergency-help. In the UK, call +44 (0) 20 7008 5000.”

The warning is still valid as of Thursday morning.

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 12:40

The FBI releases a more recent picture of Jabbar

The FBI has released a more recent photo of Shamsud Din Jabbar, the suspected terrorist involved in the New Orleans mass murder (FBI)

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 12:20

Investigators are investigating whether the Tesla explosion in Vegas is related to the attack in New Orleans

Officials are investigating whether a Tesla that exploded outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday is linked to a truck attack that killed 10 people celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans in the early morning hours.

Josh MarcusJanuary 2, 2025 12:00

Viewer describes the horror of the attack in New Orleans

Pedestrians described a horrific scene in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a truck plowed into New Year’s celebrations in New Orleans, killing 10 people.

Zion Parsons, 18, of Gulfport, Mississippi, told the Associated Press that he saw the truck “speeding through and throwing people into the air like a scene from a movie.”

“Bodies, dead bodies all over the street, everyone screaming and shouting,” he added.

His girlfriend Nikyra Dedeaux was among those killed.

Josh MarcusJanuary 2, 2025 11:40

A photo is taken of Shamsud-Din Jabbar in an army uniform

Jabbar, former information technology team leader for the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, photographed in 2016 at Fort Polk, Louisiana — Jabbar, former information technology team leader for the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, photographed in 2016 at Fort Polk, Louisiana (Facebook/1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division )

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 11:20

How Louisiana’s congressional delegation responded to the attack in New Orleans

Josh MarcusJanuary 2, 2025 11:00

The Las Vegas Cybertruck suspect has been named by the FBI and is investigating a possible connection to Jabbar

The driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel on New Year’s Day has been identified as Matthew Livelsberger, according to local media reports.

Multiple informed sources told ABC affiliate Denver 7 and KOAA News that Livelsberged, 37, a former Army veteran from Colorado Springs, was behind the wheel of the vehicle that crashed at 8:40 a.m. outside the Trump International Hotel at Las Vegas Boulevard and Sammy Davis Jr. Drive exploded on Wednesday.

According to sources, Livelsberger died in the explosion. Police have yet to officially confirm the identity of the deceased.

James Liddell has the whole story.

James LiddellJanuary 2, 2025 10:40

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