CDFingers wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:27 am I just want a little drone I can tell, "Go to the beer store and bring back a Torpedo IPA. Have him put it on my tab." It would have to be armed. I know it wasn't in the Jetsons, but, still.

CDF

New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar wore smart glasses to film the city's French Quarter while cycling, in the weeks before his deadly atrocity, the FBI has said. Jabbar made two trips to the southern city in October and November last year, according to the bureau. The US citizen, from Houston, Texas, killed 14 people, including Briton Edward Pettifer, when he rammed his rental white pick-up truck into a crowd celebrating New Year in Bourbon Street in the historic French Quarter early on 1 January. The 42-year-old former US army soldier was then killed in a shootout with police at the scene of the deadly crash.

The FBI said Jabbar's first trip, where he stayed at a rental home, started on 30 October, and lasted at least two days, and he was also in New Orleans on 10 November. It said he made the cycling video on his first visit using the hands-free glasses, which were developed by US tech giant Meta and are capable of recording or livestreaming. They are designed to look like normal glasses and come in a range of styles. Jabbar was wearing a pair of Meta smart glasses while he carried out the 1 January attack, but he did not activate them to livestream his actions that day. The FBI said Jabbar was seen on 31 December at one of several gun shops he visited in Texas leading up to the ramming attack. He then stopped at a business in Texas where he bought one of the ice boxes he used to hide an improvised explosive device (IED).

He entered Louisiana around 2.30pm local time (8.30pm UK time) on 31 December - hours before the attack - and his rented vehicle was later seen in the city of Gonzales, Louisiana, about 9pm that evening. By 10pm, home camera footage showed Jabbar unloading the white pick-up truck in New Orleans outside his rental home in Mandeville Street. The FBI said that just under three hours later, at 12.41am on 1 January, Jabbar parked the truck and walked to the junction of Royal and Governor Nichols Street. It said Jabbar placed one IED in a cooler box at the junction of Bourbon Street and St Peter Street at 1.53am on New Year's Day. A person on Bourbon Street, not believed to be involved in the attack, dragged the cooler about a block where authorities found it after the attack. A second IED was placed by Jabbar in a "bucket-type cooler" at 2.20am at the junction of Bourbon Street and Toulouse Street.

At 3.15am, Jabbar carried out his deadly attack, where he "used the truck as a lethal weapon", said the FBI. Two IEDs left in coolers several blocks apart were made safe. Shortly after 5am, a fire was reported at the Mandeville Street rental home in New Orleans, where emergency services found explosive devices. The FBI believes Jabbar acted alone.