now to the latest on the deadly New Year's Day shooting in New Orleans a memorial of flowers and candles continues to grow at this hour on Bourbon Street where an army veteran from Texas mowed down a crowd killing 14 people the FBI says he was inspired by ISIS but acted alone and now law enforcement says it's concerned over copycat attacks ABC's Morgan Norwood has more as the FBI Combs through hundreds of hours of surveillance video and hundreds of tips Federal authorities now warning law enforcement agencies across the country to be on alert for copycat attacks
it comes as dramatic video shows people scrambling to safety as a white F-150 truck raced down Bourbon Street New Year's Day one person just barely getting out of the way Robert Nevil works in the area he described the scene as terrifying we watched the people actually flip in the air like like the crazy like as we seen the incident happen we all try to a know rush out the a people the FBI revealing a new detailed timeline saying shamshu de Jabar drove that rented truck from Houston to New Orleans on December 31st posting multiple videos
to Facebook claiming he joined and pledged allegiance to Isis despite earlier fears the 42-year-old may have had accomplishes the FBI now saying he was likely a lone wolf at 2:03 a.m. he's seen near Bourbon Street the FBI saying he planted explosives and two coolers with a remote Detonator by 3:15 a.m. surveillance video showed showing him taking a right turn then barreling down Bourbon Street the people that guy hit by this car and now we're learning more about the victims who lost their lives Kareem badai a freshman and fraternity member at the University of Alabama funloving
guy he was a positive guy and will like and 26-year-old Drew dolphin celebrating the new year with his younger brother Matthew and everybody that knows Drew and knows Matthew they were they were one they were best friends according to a 2019 security assessment the City of New Orleans was warned that broken blockades made Bourbon Street vulnerable to a vehicle raming incident now the city did beef up security presence and work to install new barriers but that work wasn't done and experts say even if it was it likely wouldn't have stopped what happened here on New
Year's Day I'm Morgan Norwood from New Orleans Channel 6 Action News
