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Top: Samshud-din Jabbar, New Orleans Truck Attacker, in an undated passport photo provided by the FBI. Bottom: Matthew Alan Livelsberger, Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck Attacker (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
The New Year’s Terror-Truck Attacks
At 3:16 AM on January 1, as revelers in New Orleans were still soaking in the joy and marinating in the alcoholic vapors of the freshly birthed year of 2025, a black man driving a recently rented white Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck barreled over Bourbon Street pedestrians for three blocks. After crashing into a hydraulic lift, he exited the truck and began shooting, only to be shot dead in a gun battle with police. Counting the fourteen hapless celebrants he’d slaughtered by blunt-force trauma with his truck, he would be the fifteenth fatality. (more…)