Police in New Orleans are calling the New Year’s Day truck ramming that killed 14 people and injured more than 30 a deliberate act of terror. According to the Associated Press, the FBI is investigating the case as a potential terrorist act, though a definitive motive has not yet been revealed. The attacker, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran, reportedly drove a rented pickup truck at high speed into a dense crowd on Bourbon Street before engaging in a short firefight with police before being fatally shot.
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