New Year’s ‘terror attack’ kills 10 people, injures 35 after killer rammed revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, opened fire
Updated Jan. 1, 2025, 7:10 a.m. ET
At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured after a driver rammed a truck into crowds on the famed Bourbon Street in New Orleans before jumping out and shooting cops — just hours after the city rang in the New Year, according to officials.
“The city of New Orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said of the carnage early Wednesday — as the FBI investigated possibly improvised explosives left at the scene.
The killer, who police said was “hellbent” on “carnage,” was shot and killed in a gun battle with cops, two of whom were also shot, police sources confirmed.
Photos from the scene showed a crashed white pickup truck — with a black flag attached to the back.
The mass casualty incident unfolded at the intersection of Bourbon and Canal Streets in the French Quarter neighborhood at around 3:15 a.m. – close to where revelers had gathered to watch the city’s New Year’s Eve fireworks, police said.
Ten people were killed and at least 35 others were hospitalized after the male driver intentionally drove through barricades and plowed down the street at a “very fast pace,” according to New Orleans Police chief Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick.
“This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could,” Kirkpatrick said, adding the driver “was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did.”