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FBI believes that the suspect of a deadly attack of the new Orleans did not act alone

Nowy Orlean (AP) – Army veteran leading a pickup who wore the flag of the Islamic group of the state killing 15 people When he headed around the police block and hit revelers before he was shot by the police.
The FBI said he was investigating Attack early Wednesday As a terrorist act and he does not consider that the driver acted alone. Investigators found weapons and something that looked like an improvised explosive in the vehicle, in addition to other devices in other parts of the famous French city district.
Rampage turned the festive Bourbon street into macabre chaos of mutilated victims, bloodied bodies and pedestrians escaping for safety in night clubs and restaurants. In addition to the dead dozens of people were wounded. College Football Playoff in nearby SuperDome He was postponed to Thursday.
18 -year -old Zion Parsons from Gulfport, Mississippi said that he saw a truck “passing through people, throwing people like on a film stage, throwing people at the air.”
“Body, bodies up and bottom of the street, everyone screams and screams,” said Parsons, whose friend Nikary Dedaux was amongst the killed people.
“This is not just an act of terrorism. This is bad – said the police superintendent in New Orleans Anne Kirkpatrick.
Kirkpatrick said that the driver “defeated” security measures to guard pedestrians, and “was” hellish in creating slaughter and damage. “

The FBI identified the driver as a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas, a US citizen from Texas and said that he was acting on the definition of his potential associations with terrorist organizations.
“We do not believe that Jabbar was exclusively responsible,” said the assistant of the FBI special agent chargeable for Athea Duncan at a press conference.
Investigators found many improvised explosives, including two tubular bombs, which were hidden in the coolers and connected to distant detonation, in accordance with the Bulletin of the State Police Intelligence in Louisiana obtained by the Associated Press.
The newsletter, consisting of preliminary information gathered shortly after the attack, also said that the material from surveillance showed three men and a woman placeing one of the devices, but federal officials did not confirm this detail immediately and it was not clear who they were or what connection they’d to attack , if in any respect.
Jabbar drove a rented pickup on the sidewalk, walking on a police automotive that was in a position to block the traffic of vehicles, authorities. The barrier system geared toward stopping vehicle attacks was repaired As part of the preparation for Super Bowl in February.
Kirkpatrick said that Jabbar was killed by the police after he left the truck and opened fire on the corresponding officers. Three officers returned fire. Two were shot and are in a stable condition.
Investigators regained a pistol and a rifle AR, based on law enforcement officer, which was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke provided anonymity.
Deadly explosions have also crashed Honolulu AND Las VegasAlthough the authorities did not say whether or not they were related to the attack of New Orleans.
The photo circulated amongst law enforcement officers showed bearded Jabbar in camouflage next to the truck after killing. The Intelligence Bulletin obtained by AP said that he was wearing a ballistic vest and a helmet. Flbi said that the flag of the Islamic States group was on the trailer of the truck trailer.
“For those people who do not believe in objective evil, everything you have to do is look at what happened in our city early in the morning,” said Senator John Kennedy, a Republican of Louisiana. “If this does not cause a reflex of gags of every American, every honest American, I will be very surprised.”
Jabbar joined the army in 2007, serving on human resources and IT technologies and deployed in Afghanistan in 2009–2010, as the service said. He moved to the army reserve in 2015 and left in 2020 with the rank of staff sergeant.
Just a few hours after the attack, a few coroner’s office vans were parked on the corner of Bourbon and Canal streets, curted with police tape with a crowd of stunned tourists standing around, some tried to maneuver in luggage through the labyrinth of blockades.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landra called people to avoid an area that remained an lively place of crime.
“We looked at our front door and saw a tape of caution and dead silence and it is amazing,” said Tessa Cundiff, from Indiana, who moved to the French district a few years ago. “This is not what we fell in love with is sad.”
Near Life, it was normal in the city known to some for the motto, which translates into the “Let the Good Times”. In the cafe, the distress from which the truck was buried, people crowded for breakfast, when optimistic pop music was played. Two blocks, people drank in the bar, apparently as if nothing had happened.

President Joe Biden, talking to reporters in Delaware, said he felt “anger and frustration” because of the attack, but he would refrain from further commentary until more.
“My heart is directed to the victims and their families who simply tried to celebrate holidays,” said Biden in a statement. “There is no justification for any violence and we will not tolerate any attack on any of the community of our nation.”
Attack is The latest example of a used vehicle as a weapon To perform mass violence, a trend that alerted law enforcement officers and might be difficult to guard.
If that is confirmed based on inspiration, the attack can be the most fatal such robbery of American earth for years. FBI officials have repeatedly warned about the increased international threat of terrorism because of the Israel-HAM war.
Last yr, the FBI disrupted other potential attacks inspired by a group of fighters, including in October, when agents arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma accused of planning an attack on the day of election addressed to large crowds.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs rejects the final contract due to the trial on sexual trade

Sean “Diddy” Combs rejected his last probability to avoid a sexual trade process.
During the hearing on Thursday, a 55-year-old disgraced music mogel confirmed that he didn’t accept transactions of federal prosecutors, NBC News Reported.
Asked by the district judge Arun Subramanian, who led in New York, if he rejected the government’s offer, Diddy said: “Yes, your honor.”
After consulting his legal team, led by lawyer Marc Agnifilo, he didn’t plead five charges covering tribute, two cases of sexual trade and two cases of transport so as to become involved in prostitution. He denied all the allegations that were brought to him in quite a few lawsuits, wherein he accused or forced people to take part in sexual files and drug -powered sexuals.
If Diddy is found guilty, he faces an extended time behind bars. If he’s convicted of racketeers, he stands in the face of life in prison. If he’s found guilty of two allegations of sexual trade, he’s in the face of a further at the least 15 years. Meanwhile, transport for the purposes of prostitution fees has a maximum judgment of 10 years.

Details of the allegation agreement haven’t been disclosed; However, at the least one lawyer noticed NBC that it was related to a smaller sentence.
Thursday’s interrogation was the last before selecting a jury in the process, which is to start on May 5. Opening declarations to the trial are to start on May 12. The initial technique of jury began on Monday, April 28, and tons of of New Yorkers were received by questionnaires to determine their impartiality.
While Diddy, who was waiting for the trial in Brooklyn since his arrest in September, appeared in court during a trial in prison, in accordance with BBC NewsThe music director was allowed to wear “non -disconneous clothing” during the trial.
The judicial order specifies that COBS will “allow five button shirts, up to five pairs of pants, up to five sweaters, up to five pairs of socks and up to two pairs of shoes without lace in court”, according to BBC.
According to sales, this movement just isn’t unusual. The accused can often wear their very own clothes during trials, because prison clothes may cause some sworn to see crime by nature.

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Shooting at Elizabeth City State University leaves 1 dead, 6 wounded

A 24-year-old man was killed at the Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) campus throughout the shooting on Sunday, April 27. Shooting at the Historically Black University campus at Elizabeth City in North Carolina, also hurt six others.
HBCU published statement Explaining that the shooting took place after the Yard Fest, an event that was a part of the larger Viking Fest festival, a weekly celebration of the college spirit within the campus.
“Six people were injured during the incident. Four durable gunshot wounds, including three ECSU students,” confirmed the university. “In addition, two other ECSU students were injured during the next confusion. Fortunately, none of the injuries is considered life -threatening, and all injured were transported to the local hospital for treatment.”

A 24-year-old man who was not an ECSU student was recognized as deceased. His identity is suspended in anticipation of notification of his closest relative ” – read the statement.
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The man who died was identified as Isaiah Caldwell, According to State Bureau of Investigation.
“ECSU expands its deepest sympathies for everyone affected by this tragic event and remains involved in ensuring the security and well -being of the Viking community,” he summed up the ECSU statement.
Caldwell was a member of the University of Albany 2021 of the Social Organization of Scholarship Organization, Groove Phi Groove; organization He confirmed his departure through social media on Monday.
“With deep sadness and the deepest sympathy, we inform you concerning the premature passage of our beloved brother, Isaiah Caldwell (autumn 21 – great chapter data). Isaiah was tragically taken from the senseless and non -discriminatory violence from the pistol in Elżbiebeth City State University at Vikingfest at the University of State University University University.
Following shooting, the University moved to distant education for the remaining weeks of the spring semester, in keeping with Virginian-Pilot.

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Pro footballer is hiding when the loved ones kidnapped in connection with the growing crime in Ecuador, the family returned safely


Wife and young son of Afro-Elecadorian skilled football Jackson Rodríguez They were secure The authorities saved by the police on April 24 confirmed, after shocking kidnapping from their house, Guayaquil. The incident in which the 26-year-old Rodríguez hid under his bed, when armed men abducted his family, he emphasizes the escalating Ecuador of uncertain uncertainty.
Police commander Pablo Dávila informed on Friday that the 24-year-old wife of Rodríguez and a five-year-old son received medical care after their dismissal and weren’t semi-bad. Insolent kidnapping He occurred early On April 24, when 4 “with a hood and heavily armed people” entered the family’s residence in the Mucho Lete district in this unstable coastal city.
According to Dávila, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of USD 500,000 for a secure return of mother and child, which the family refused to fulfill. Rodríguez, a left defender for the Emelec first division club, fully collaborated with investigators.
After intensive police operations, the abducted couple was in the “El Fortín” sector, densely populated and notoriously dangerous area in the north -western Guayaquil. . has gained an area The gloomy publicity in March, when the brutal massacre consumed the lives of twenty-two people, which is a transparent illustration of violence harassing the city. Guayaquil, positioned about 270 kilometers (170 miles) southwest of the capital of Ecuador, Quito, became the focus of the spiral wave of crime of the nation. According to law enforcement officers, its strategic port is the major channel for illegal drug shipments intended for Europe, Central America and the United States.
The kidnapping appeared against the background of the emergency declared only ten days earlier by the Ecuador government during nine provinces, including Guayas, where Guayaquil is positioned. This emergency measure authorizes the distribution of security forces to combat the growing operations of organized crime groups, which the authorities attribute to a rise in violence.
Uncertainty and crime have forged an extended shadow over the Ecuador over the past 4 years, with a transparent escalation in the early months of 2025. Government statistics reveal the stunning 2345 violent deaths reported throughout January to March, with a disproportionate 742 of those appearing in Guayaquil itself. The port city is now gloomy as one in all the most dangerous urban centers in the country.
Tragically Rodríguez and his family are usually not the first athletes who were the goal of this wave of violence. In December 2024, Pedro Perza, footballer for the de quito league, He was kidnapped Esmeraldas, city 182 kilometers northwest of Quito. He was saved alive a number of days later, emphasizing the susceptibility with which even outstanding characters face.
In his police testimonies, the head of Édison Rodriguez (with no relationship with the victim) stated that 26-year-old Fullback told him, hiding under the bed after hearing a brutal compulsory entrance to his house around 3 am the perpetrator, after determining the absence of Rodríguez, he abducted his wife and child. The player was reportedly witnessing the kidnappers escaping in a gray double cabin pickup.
The last list data from 2022 from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) has revealed an inclination for the Afro-Elecadorian community. While the census indicated a rise in the population of Mestizo, Native and Montubio, the variety of self-identification people as Afro-Elecadorian has fallen significantly in comparison with the 2010 census. The universal list in 2022 recorded 814 495 Africanadorian, which is 4.8% of the total population, which is a transparent contrast of 1,041,559 people, i.e. 7.2%, who identified themselves as Afro-Elecadorian in the 2010 list.
Africaader organizations challenged these official data, estimating that the black population is closer to 10 percent. They cite problems with performing a universal list, especially in areas affected by violence, in which the survey work proved to be difficult, which results in infirmity. And vice versa, the Ecuadorian government assigns a reported reduction in the issue of self -identification and lack of organizations in black communities.
Historically Afro-Elecadorians who First of all, he lives In the northern Coastal Province of Esmeraldas, in addition to in Guayas and other south-center coastal regions, they encountered systemic marginalization despite their significant cultural contribution. While slave ships got here to Ecuador for the first time in 1526, and the enslaved Africans worked on gold plantations and mines, the abolition of slavery in 1851 didn’t erase the lasting consequences of this brutal socio-economic system.
Africaadorian awareness gained momentum at the end of the twentieth century, which led to the recognition of Afro-Elecadorian as a separate ethnic group in the 1998 structure. However, critics indicate periods of instability and misunderstandings regarding the management of the individual.
Despite some political reforms and declarations of October 2 as Afro-Elecadorian, socio-economic indicators reveal that Afro-Elecadorians Still behind Their white/mestizo counterparts, in the face of everlasting unevenness and racial discrimination, especially in urban areas. Africaader women, in particular, experience disproportionately high level of violence.
The Working Group of the United Nations for African Zdechów also expressed fears, stating in 2019 that the Afro-Dessers constitute a surprising 40 percent of the population living in poverty in Ecuador, despite the much lower overall percentage. The UN body also criticized the denial of their rights to the clean environment, access to justice, education and decent work, emphasizing environmental racism affecting the Afro-Descendant community.
The recent kidnapping of the Rodriguez family is a transparent reminder of the ubiquitous ecuador of uncertain uncertainty and special gaps in security, in which marginalized communities struggle, including Africanadorians as a part of this crisis. While the secure rescue of his wife and son offers a ray of hope, he emphasizes the urgent need for effective government actions to unravel the original causes of escalation and ensuring the safety and well -being of all its residents.
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