BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
[New Orleans] - A male suspect drove a pickup truck through a crowded street, killing at least 10 and injuring over a dozen people.
'He was hell-bent on creating the carnage that he did" - Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the driver attempted to kill as many people as possible. The man drove an electric F150 lightning, with a black flag attached to it.
"The FBI is already on the ground supporting local law enforcement in the investigation and the President will continue to be briefed throughout the day," the White House said in a statement.
From ABC News:
"When we got on the balcony, what we saw was insanity," Cothran, a certified emergency medical technician, said. "I mean it was something out of a movie, the graphic nature of it. It was unbelievable. We instantly counted I'd saw 10 bodies, six clearly graphically deceased and the others yelling with one around. Everyone had just cleared the street completely."
"Around 3:15 [a.m.], we heard a 'pop, pop, pop, pop' sound followed by a sound that sounded like fireworks going off, like big fireworks all at once," Paul S. said. "Then it turned out that was the crash."
Security personnel gather at the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
He said he looked outside his hotel window, he saw a chaotic scene with bodies strewn on the street below.
"What I was was if you can imagine a street with brick and whatnot littered all around the sidewalk, and then there were bodies laid up next to garbage cans and people rushing to give aid," Paul S. said.
He said he observed a man who had been thrown from his wheelchair lying on the ground next to the truck involved in in the attack writhing in pain.
"There was also a body underneath a scissor lift," Paul S. said.
“It was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he could,” Kirkpatrick said.
After the vehicle stopped, the driver emerged and opened fire on responding officers, police said. Officers returned fire, killing the driver, police said. Two officers were wounded and are in stable condition, police said.
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