section_path: Investigation
section_name: Investigation
paragraph_text: Investigation
  
  The FBI is leading the investigation of the attack and has opened a tip line. Investigators found two pipe bombs inside coolers on Bourbon Street a few blocks from the attack. The devices were rigged for detonation, and connected to a wireless remote found in the truck. The bombs were reportedly rudimentary and rigged with shrapnel, such as nails, screws and tacks. The bombs were also meant to be detonated with an electric match and consisted of RDX. The FBI described Jabbar's bombs as "crude" and made with a "lack of experience" due to his choice of not using a detonator for his RDX bombs.
  
  A handgun and a long gun with a homemade suppressor were also found at the scene. Law enforcement is investigating whether Jabbar illegally acquired the weapons. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Department of Homeland Security, and prosecutors for the National Security Division and the local federal prosecutor's office are assisting in the investigation. After an urgent search by the ATF, it is concluded that the rifle was obtained legally through a transaction with an individual in Arlington, Texas on November 19, 2024. The origins of the handgun are still under investigation. The FBI has inquired as to whether Jabbar was connected to or inspired by a foreign terrorist organization; Jabbar discussed the Islamic State (IS), his divorce and a desire to kill his family in videos he recorded while driving from Texas to New Orleans. Jabbar posted five videos on his Facebook account between 1:29 a.m. and 3:02 a.m. before initiating his attack at around 3:15 a.m. The FBI said that apparent explosive devices were found elsewhere in the French Quarter; authorities believed those may have been placed by someone other than the driver, but the FBI later confirmed that Jabbar acted alone. On January 3, the FBI seized material for making explosives while raiding Jabbar's home in Houston. Later, the FBI stated that Jabbar was wearing Meta smart glasses when he started the attack at 3:15 a.m., but did not record the attack or attempt to livestream it.
  
  The FBI said that Jabbar was "100% inspired by ISIS" and that it was a premeditated act of terrorism. On January 4, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division said that investigators "do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack except Shamsud-Din Jabbar." Initially, investigators believed that Jabbar had accomplices, based on New Orleans police's initial review of surveillance video, in which several people stood near potential explosive devices. However, after reviewing the videos further, investigators concluded that Jabbar himself planted the improvised bombs, and that the people later seen standing near them were not connected "in any way" to Jabbar's attack.
  
  A fire broke out the same day of the attack at an Airbnb in the St. Roch neighborhood, which investigators believe Jabbar rented. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said that it believes Jabbar attempted to destroy evidence of his crimes by setting a small fire in the hallway of his house, and by placing accelerants in multiple rooms, but that the fire burned itself out before spreading and reaching accelerants in the house. The New Orleans Fire Department extinguished the fire preventing significant damage to the building and allowing investigators to seize explosive making materials and other evidence left behind by Jabbar.
  
  The same day, at approximately 8:39 a.m., a Tesla Cybertruck exploded and caught fire outside of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, killing the perpetrator and injuring seven other people. The perpetrator of the Las Vegas explosion rented it from the Turo app like Jabbar and both reportedly served at the same military base. The FBI stated that there is "no definitive link" between the New Orleans truck attack and the Las Vegas explosion.
  
  During a law enforcement raid of Jabbar's house in North Houston, a man surrendered and was taken into custody.