Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, has been identified as the suspect who drove a car into a crowd of people along Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Jabbar was shot and killed by officers after opening fire on them during the attack. Two New Orleans police officers were injured.

Multiple people have been killed after a vehicle drove into a crowd in Louisiana in the early hours of New Year's Day, according to reports. At around 3:15 a.m. in New Orleans, the vehicle drove into pedestrians at the intersection between Bourbon Street and Iberville,

Months before the deadly New Orleans vehicle attack on New Year’s Day, the city modeled scenarios for how an attacker could enter Bourbon Street at various intersections in a crew-cab Ford F-150 similar to the one used to kill 14 people and injure dozens more.