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 15.
He was then gunned down by cops and killed.
Video posted to social media showed the white truck driving through traffic on a busy road in central New Orleans.
It then sharply turns right, ramming up onto a sidewalk and ploughing into barriers and bollards.
Jabbar collided with officers who were in place to protect the public at the end of the street, 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” in “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 wrecked car, concealed within coolers and wired for remote detonation, a state police intelligence bulletin obtained by AP said.
The guy in the pickup truck just punched the gas and mowed over the barricade and hit pedicab passengers. There were just bodies and the screams
Kimberly Stricklin
The FBI said an ISIS flag was also 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 reportedly a US Army veteran and was wearing full body armour and armed with an assault rifle for the grim attack.
Witness Whit Davis said people started running and hiding under tables as the rampage unfolded.
He said he was horrified to see “dead and injured bodies all over the street”.
Kimberly Stricklin, visiting from Alabama for a concert with her husband, told CNN she saw the attack herself.
She said: “The guy in the pickup truck just punched the gas and mowed over the barricade and hit pedicab passengers.
“There were just bodies and the screams. I mean, you can’t unhear that.”
The FBI is also investigating whether the suspect was firing from the truck during the rampage.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell says the city has been ravaged by a “terrorist attack” and urged residents to avoid the area.
The truck is registered to a man from Houston that is not Jabbar, the New York Times reports, and has Texas plates.
Vehicle sharing app Turo confirmed the truck had been rented through their site and they are now working with the FBI.
Officials said on Wednesday that Jabbar isn’t thought to have acted alone in the attack and the FBI is “aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates.”
The identities of victims have begun to emerge following the tragedy with Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux named by her grieving mother.
Melissa Dedeaux said her 18-year-old daughter “was the sweetest person. She would give you anything, anything,” NOLA.com reports.
Other victims have been named as dad-of-two Reggie Hunter, 37, and football player Tiger Bech, 27.
THE man police suspect drove his car into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revellers in New Orleans is 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar.
He is believed to have killed 15 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.
Documents viewed by The U.S. Sun confirmed Jabbar held a real estate license from 2019 until it expired in February 2021.
In a YouTube video uploaded on May 12, 2020, Jabbar introduced himself as a Team Lead for the Midas Group and Property Manager at Blue Meadow Properties.
He shared that he was born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, but was living in Houston at the time of the video.
During his 10-year stint in the Army, Jabbar said he served as a human resources specialist and IT specialist from 2007 to 2015.
He was deployed to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010.
Between 2015 and 2020 he served in the Army Reserve as an IT specialist, the Army said.
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.
