The man accused of plowing into a crowd in the heart of New Orleans in an ISIS-inspired attack that killed 15 people acted alone, an FBI official said on Thursday.
Law enforcement officials identified the suspect in the attack as shamsud-Din Bahar jabbah, a 42- year old US Army veteran, and have described it as a premeditated act of terrorism.
Officials say he killed 14 people and injured at least 35 more others after driving into the crowd with a rented truck early on New year's Day and started shooting before being killed in a shootout with police.
At a press conference Thursday, Christopher Raia, an FBI counterterrorism official involved in the investigation, walked back earlier claims that other people may have assisted jabbar with the attack.