After two weeks of investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation now says there were more victims in the New Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans than initially recorded.
"FBI Victim Services has identified at least 57 individuals who were physically injured, in addition to the 14 deceased victims, during the New Year’s Day attack," The FBI's Lesley Hill said in a news release.
The initial reports of the number of injured was based on how many EMS transported to area hospitals. Others were brought for treatment in private vehicles or did not require hospitalization.
She says they have also uncovered more details about terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar, his planning of the attack and his radicalization.
"Evidence obtained in the ongoing investigation indicates Jabbar became a more devout Muslim in 2022. During this time, Jabbar began isolating himself from society. Around the spring of 2024, Jabbar began following extremist views."
Hill says they have also learned more about the time the killer spent in New Orleans planning the massacre.
"On November 10, 2024, Jabbar took a train from Houston, Texas to New Orleans and returned to Texas that evening on a bus. While in the city, Jabbar looked at an apartment for rent on Orleans Street. Just days after his travel he applied to rent the apartment but later told the landlord he changed his mind."
He did get a short term rental in the city hours before the New Year's Day attack. That home caught on fire shortly after Jabbar left to carry out plant bombs, run down dozens of people on Bourbon, and shoot two police officers... before cops shot him dead.
The FBI has also gleaned additional information from the computers and phones they recovered in New Orleans and Houston.
"An initial review of his electronics shows Jabbar conducted many online searches. They included how to access a balcony on Bourbon Street, information about Mardi Gras, and he researched several shootings in the city, as late as mid-November. Just hours before the attack on Bourbon Street, he also searched for information about the car that rammed into innocent victims in a Christmas market in Germany just ten days before."
Here is a time line that the FBI previously released:
Feds also release video that Jabbar recorded and from cameras in the French Quarter while he planning and carrying out the attack in New Orleans:
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