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FBI: New Orleans attacker used Meta smart glasses to scout French Quarter
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An Islamic State flag lies on the ground rolled up behind the pickup truck that Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
The man who drove a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14, had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses, the FBI says.
On Oct. 31, Shamsud-Din Jabbar recorded video with the glasses as he cycled through the French Quarter and plotted the attack, says Lyonel Myrthil, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans field office.
Jabbar also wore the glasses, which are capable of livestreaming, during the attack, but did not activate them.
A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, declines to comment.
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