FBI investigating Bourbon Street attacker's past trips to New Orleans and Cairo

Five days after a pickup truck flying the ISIS flag rammed through a crowd celebrating New Year's Eve in New Orleans, investigators say they are learning more about the background and possible motives of the driver who carried out the deadly attack.

While following leads that have cropped up in several United States cities outside of Louisiana, federal agents are also looking into a series of trips the driver took to New Orleans and Cairo, Egypt, in 2023, said Lyonel Myrthil, the special agent in charge of FBI New Orleans, at a briefing Sunday. 

The FBI previously identified the perpetrator as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas. He was fatally shot by police during the rampage on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans' French Quarter, which left 14 people dead and dozens more injured. Authorities have characterized the attack as an act of terrorism, pointing to social media videos where Jabbar aligned himself with ISIS, and believe he was likely radicalized online.