The FBI has 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.
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.”
The FBI has 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.
Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was identified as the perpetrator of the attack that left seven people injured. He appears in Afghanistan in a local newspaper profile in the Ohio town where he grew up.
Authorities said Jabbar, 42, is responsible for killing 15 people and wounding 30 others in the New Year’s Day bloodbath on Bourbon Street.
The US Army veteran drove a rented Ford electric vehicle packed with explosives and carrying an ISIS flag into the crowd to carry out the massacre.
Investigators said they were looking into whether someone placed improvised explosive devices at the scene that were separate from the truck, but have since confirmed it was done by Jabbar.
It was initially thought that it might be related to Matthew Livelsberger’s Las Vegas incident, after it emerged that the two had served on the same base.
Police have not confirmed whether the couple knew each other.
Livelsberger, 37, is a long-married Green Beret who was on leave from active duty when he carried out the attack outside Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas, which left seven people wounded.
The electric vehicle exploded about 15 seconds after the driver stopped in front of the hotel’s valet service.
The Tesla cybertruck exploded about 15 seconds after the driver stopped in front of Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas.
The explosion was caused by “a bomb transported in the bed of the rented Cybertruck” or “very large fireworks,” according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Livelsberger is suspected of renting the Cybertruck in Colorado Springs, through the Turo app, and driving it across the Nevada border on Wednesday morning, stopping at several charging stations along the route.
He died in Wednesday’s explosion that injured seven other people.
A former college football star, a high school senior, a father of two and a young mother are among the 15 victims who tragically died when Jabbar deliberately plowed into the group of pedestrians.
Tiger Bech, 28, Ni’Kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, Reggie Hunter, 37, Matthew Tenedorio, 25, Kareem Badawi, Nicole Perez, 27, and Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, have been identified as victims by their families.
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