1 of 13 | A girl leaves a candle at a memorial for the victims of the New 12 months’s Day truck assault on Bourbon Road in New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday, January 3, 2025. Early January 1, Shamsud Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Military veteran who pledged loyalty to ISIS, drove a truck right into a crowd on the fringe of the French Quarter, killing not less than 14 folks and injuring dozens. Photograph by Bonnie Money/UPI | License Photograph
Jan. 3 (UPI) — President Joe Biden will go to New Orleans on Monday in response to the terrorist assault on the enduring French Quarter that killed 14 folks and injured roughly 35 extra early on New 12 months’s Day.
The White Home mentioned the president and first woman Jill Biden “will grieve with the households and group members impacted by the tragic assault on Jan. 1 and meet with officers on the bottom.”
Biden is about to satisfy with officers and authorities on the bottom to study the newest particulars concerning the investigation.
Authorities mentioned they consider Shamsud-Dim Jabbar, 42, drove a rented pickup truck onto Bourbon Road earlier than he was shot and killed by police. Jabbar is a Texas native and a U.S. Military veteran.
“The folks of New Orleans are sending an unmistakable message: They won’t let this assault or the attacker’s deluded ideology overcome us,” Biden mentioned. “None of us ought to worry it. We’ll relentlessly pursue ISIS and different terrorist organizations the place they’re, and so they’ll discover no secure harbor right here.”
The FBI has been main the investigation into the French Quarter assault with help from Homeland Safety, and state and native officers. The FBI completed their probe of Bourbon Road and turned the realm again to the Metropolis of New Orleans, which reopened the vacationer vacation spot on Thursday afternoon.