Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, has been identified as the suspect who drove a car into a crowd of people along Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Jabbar was shot and killed by officers after opening fire on them during the attack. Two New Orleans police officers were injured.

Multiple people have been killed after a vehicle drove into a crowd in Louisiana in the early hours of New Year's Day, according to reports. At around 3:15 a.m. in New Orleans, the vehicle drove into pedestrians at the intersection between Bourbon Street and Iberville,

Attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. combat veteran from Texas, exploited another vulnerability in the city’s security planning: He squeezed his seven-foot-wide pickup onto an eight-foot-wide sidewalk between a drugstore wall and the police vehicle, stomping the accelerator and plowing through the crowd at about 3:15 a.m.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill plans to open a full review into the security planning that went into the Sugar Bowl and New Year's Eve, in the wake of a deadly attack.

The driver of the truck who plowed into New Year's Day revelers had pledged support to the so-called Islamic State, the same group the Pulse nightclub shooter had claimed was his inspiration.