A CHILLING video shows the moment the terror suspect rammed through the police barrier at the beginning of the New Orleans terror attack.
The suspect, 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, is then believed to have ploughed into revellers down Bourbon Street before opening fire and killing 10.
The truck could be seen driving driving just moments before the attack
The truck sharply turns right and dodges the police barricade
The FBI have named the suspect as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar – a US citizen from Texas
He was then gunned down by cops and killed.
Video posted to social media showed the white truck driving with traffic before sharply turning right and speeding past police.
Jabbar drove onto a sidewalk to avoid a cop car blocking the road, bollards, and officers who were there protecting the public, Police superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said.
Kirkpatrick said the gunman drove the pick-up truck down Bourbon Street “at a very fast pace” and was “intentional” “trying to run over as many people as he possibly could”.
She said: “This is not just an act of terrorism. This is evil.”
Pipe bombs were found inside the car and concealed within coolers and were wired for remote detonation, a state police intelligence bulletin obtained by AP said.
The FBI said an ISIS flag was found attached to a white pipe sticking up from the hitch of the rented Ford pickup.
Some bollards were missing as they were being replaced ahead of February’s Super Bowl.
Kirkpatrick said: “So we did indeed have a plan, but the terrorist defeated it.”
Jabbar is a US Army veteran and was wearing full body armour and armed with an assault rifle for the attack.
Who was Shamsud Din Jabbar?
THE man police suspect drove his car into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revellers in New Orleans was 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar.
He is believed to have killed 10 people in what authorities are investigating as a terrorist attack before cops shot him dead.
More details are emerging about the US Army veteran who was born and lived in Texas.
Jabbar had a criminal history after being arrested in Katy, Texas, in 2002 for misdemeanor theft.
He was also arrested in 2005 for driving without an invalid license.
Jabbar is a dad to two daughters and had two previous wives.
It’s unclear when his second divorce happened, but court files show that a restraining order was granted against him in 2020.
The New York Times reported a court document that the suspect filed in August 2022 as part of a divorce proceeding said he worked at the accounting firm Deloitte and made about $120,000 a year.
A ISIS flag was found in the truck by cops following the attack after it had been attached to a pole on the truck’s trailer hitch, the FBI said.
Jabbar had only converted to Islam within the last year and was “being all crazy” the new husband of his ex-wife said, the New York Times reports.
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