Doorbell footage captured the Bourbon Street bomber unloading his rented van hours before using it to kill 15 people and wound at least 30.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, rammed the vehicle, flying an ISIS flag, into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Using military equipment and bombs inside the electric white Ford F-150 Lightning, he mowed down pedestrians, then got out and shot more of them.
Jabbar rented the van in Houston on Turo and drove it to New Orleans on Tuesday night, then checked into an Airbnb on Mandeville Street in St Roch.
Next door neighbor Michael Adasko discovered that his Ring camera filmed the terrorist arriving at 10:02 p.m. and unloading the F-150 at the house.
Footage showed Jabbar lifting boxes from the truck bed and carrying them inside from the curbside parking lot.
Investigators said Jabbar brought components to make improvised explosives with him and rented Airbnb to assemble them for his attack.
ATF Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Division Joshua Jackson said Thursday that ATF was still reviewing the rental home.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, crashed the vehicle, which was flying an ISIS flag, into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans around 3.15am on Wednesday.
Jabbar put the explosives in the F-150 after assembling them and placed some in ice coolers around Bourbon Street that he planned to set off with a remote detonator, but they did not explode during the terrorist attack.
Minutes after the attack, a fire started at the Airbnb and engulfed the home. The cause of the fire is unclear.
Adasko said cnn that his neighbor called 911 around 4 a.m. and if they hadn’t, ‘we could have died.’
‘There are many variables that make this scary. At 5:10 a.m. “I woke up to eight fire trucks putting out a fire at the Airbnb next door,” he said.
“We had smelled fire earlier that night, but we thought it was fireworks.”
Federal agents knocked on his door around 9 a.m. and he showed them the images.
The FBI removed bomb-making materials from the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property near the French Quarter.
Footage showed Jabbar lifting boxes from the truck bed and carrying them inside from the curbside parking lot.
The driver who plowed into pedestrians celebrating the New Year in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, has died following a shootout with police.
New Orleans police remove bomb containment container from property
A full containment container was seen being removed from the property around 8 pm on New Year’s Day, hours after authorities evacuated residents from the area.
The area is mainly home to rentals available to tourists traveling to the area during the holiday period, who have now been left without a place to stay.
Authorities told one couple “not to count” on being allowed back into the properties, blocking a three-street radius.
The FBI was joined by special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Homeland Security.
State Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News: “We know that these individuals who had rented the house were using it for that purpose (making bombs).”
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom property was renovated by real estate developer Oliver Doxater of Wysteria Properties.
The FBI confirmed that there is “no definitive link” between the terrorist attack in New Orleans and the CyberTruck attack in Las Vegas.
Deputy Assistant Christopher Raia said NOLA terrorism suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a lone wolf.
“We do not assess at this time that anyone else is involved in this attack except Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the issue of which you have already been informed,” Raia said.
Jabbar working as an information technology team leader for the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division during the Leader Training Program rotation Nov. 16, 2013, at Fort Polk, Louisiana .
The FBI’s new conclusion comes a day after a CyberTruck exploded outside a Trump International hotel in Las Vegas, just hours after the deadly car attack.
The statement contradicts his earlier assessment that Jabbar likely had accomplices.
“As you know, there is also an FBI investigation in Las Vegas,” Raia said. ‘We are following all potential leads and are not ruling everything out.
‘However, at this time, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas.
“And again, in closing, I’ll start with what I started at the beginning, which is very early in an investigation like this.”