Tragic Start to the New Year In the Big Easy As Driver Plows Into Crowd Killing 10 and Injuring Dozens
January 1, 2025 at 12:58 pm
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(Wednesday, January 1, 2025) – Ten people are dead and more than two dozen injured after a driver rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on New Orleans’ French Quarter early New Year’s Day. The FBI is investigating the deadly rampage as an act of terrorism. The gunman was killed in a gunfight with police. Two officers were also injured in the attack.

Details are still pouring in. But investigators are said to be combing the French Quarter for possible explosives. The Associated Press is reporting that multiple suspected explosive devices were found in an ice chest in the pickup truck used in the attack along with an ISIS flag.

A coroner’s van is parked on the corner of Bourbon St. and Canal St, after a vehicle raced into a crowd of revelers early on New Year’s Day, in New Orleans on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Brook)

The attack happened around 3:15 a.m. along Bourbon Street near Canal Street. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called the killings a terrorist attack while the police chief said the act was clearly intentional.


EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Emergency personnel work the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Tens of thousands of college football fans are in the New Orleans for the Wednesday night Sugar Bowl playoff game between Georgia and Notre Dame at the nearby Superdome. That game has now been postponed until tomorrow.

President Biden issued a written statement saying in part “My heart goes out to the victims and their families who were simply trying to celebrate the holiday. There is no justification for violence of any kind and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities.”

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