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NOLA Terrorist Acted Alone | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 01.05.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould. A change in theory by the FBI
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  Speaker 1: about the forty two year old US Army veteran who
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  Speaker 1: drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans on New Year's Day. Here's Christopher Rea with
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  Speaker 1: the FBI's counter Terrorism Division at the news conference.
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  Speaker 3: First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point.
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  Speaker 3: This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and
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  Speaker 3: an evil act. But at this point, currently, and this
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  Speaker 3: is another position on another fact I want to be
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  Speaker 3: clear on, we do not assess at this point that
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  Speaker 3: anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this
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  Speaker 3: attack except for shamsu Din Jabbar, the subject you've already
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  Speaker 3: been briefed on.
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  Speaker 1: Initially, authorities suspected that shamsu Din Jabbar had accomplices to
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  Speaker 1: orchestrate the attack. Jabbar, who was shot killed by police
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  Speaker 1: after firing on officers, steered a rented truck around a
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  Speaker 1: police blockade and onto the sidewalk early Wednesday morning, plowing
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  Speaker 1: into pedestrians celebrating on Bourbon Street. The rampage turned the
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  Speaker 1: festive area of the French Quarter into a scene of devastation,
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  Speaker 1: with victims left bloodied and mangled and others scrambling for safety.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI has labeled the attack a premeditated act of terrorism,
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  Speaker 1: saying Jabbar was one hundred percent inspired by the Islamic
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  Speaker 1: State group. Investigators found an Islamic State flag on the
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  Speaker 1: truck and discovered multiple improvised explosives, including remote detonated pipe
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  Speaker 1: bombs hidden in Cooler's. Authorities are also reviewing five videos
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  Speaker 1: Jabbar posted on Facebook in the hours before the attack,
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  Speaker 1: in which he pledged his support for the extremist group
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  Speaker 1: and hinted at the violence he would soon unleash. In
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  Speaker 1: the past, he'd also posted about himself on YouTube. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a video that was uploaded back in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, I'm Shampster dain JABORI So, I'm born and
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  Speaker 4: raised in Beaumont, Texas, and now live in Houston. And
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  Speaker 4: I've been here all my life, with the exception of
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  Speaker 4: traveling for the military, where I spent ten years as
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  Speaker 4: a human resources specialist and IT specialist, where I learned
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  Speaker 4: the meaning of great service and what it means to
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  Speaker 4: be responsive and take everything seriously. Dotting I's and crossing
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  Speaker 4: t's to make sure that things go off without a hit.
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  Speaker 1: Jabbar, who served in the US Army from twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty, had rented the truck in Houston on
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  Speaker 1: December thirtieth and drove it to New Orleans the following night.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators are now focused on understanding how Jabbar became radicalized
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  Speaker 1: and what led him to carry out the deadly attack.
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  Speaker 1: Reports say he originally wanted to annihilate his family and
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  Speaker 1: friends to lure them to a celebration where he'd kill them,
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  Speaker 1: but Jabbar changed his mind because he was concerned the
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  Speaker 1: news headlines would not focus on the quote believers and
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  Speaker 1: the disbelievers end quote. New Orleans officials say that mechanical
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  Speaker 1: barricades and bullards on Bourbon Street were not functioning and
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  Speaker 1: were being replaced ahead of the Super Bowl in February.
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  Speaker 1: In their place, police cars and other barriers were placed
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  Speaker 1: at parts of Bourbon Street, but the attacker drove onto
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk to evade the barriers and slam into crowds
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  Speaker 1: of people. Bourbon Street was closed off for hours as
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  Speaker 1: authorities processed the horrific crime scene, which was littered with
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  Speaker 1: bodies and debris. The area has now been cleared and
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  Speaker 1: businesses have resumed operations. The attack also led to the
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  Speaker 1: postponement of the Sugar Bowl at the nearby super Dome,
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  Speaker 1: but that will now be played. Some of the victims'
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  Speaker 1: names are also now being released. They are Martin tiger
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  Speaker 1: Bech twenty eight of former Princeton University football player, Nikira Dido,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen year old aspiring nurse, Reggie Hunter, a thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old father of two, Nicole Perez twenty seven, a
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  Speaker 1: single mom, Hubert Gotrou twenty one, Matthew Tendorio twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: an audio visual technician for the Superdome, Kareem Badawi, a
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  Speaker 1: student at the University of Alabama, and Drew Dauphin, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three graduate of Auburn University in Alabama. Dozens
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  Speaker 1: more were injured in the attack and hospitalized. In the meantime.
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  Speaker 1: Officials ask if you have any information or video that
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  Speaker 1: can help in this investigation. They urge you to call
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  Speaker 1: one eight hundred call FBI.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Drew Nelson. In the midst of New Year's celebrations,
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  Speaker 2: a ten year old Florida girl is killed by a
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  Speaker 2: stray bullet, and police say they may never find the
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  Speaker 2: person who fired the shot. Yaliz Mungwilla, who had just
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  Speaker 2: turned ten on December twenty sixth, was celebrating with their
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  Speaker 2: family outside their home in Alapada shortly after midnight January
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  Speaker 2: f first. They were lighting fireworks in a parking lot
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  Speaker 2: when she suddenly collapsed. Here's her grandfather, Ramon Valdison, speaking
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  Speaker 2: through a translator on.
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  Speaker 5: Wfor Suddenly the girl collapsed. Her father went to her
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  Speaker 5: and burst into tears. Then he picked her up and
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  Speaker 5: my son in law said she had a gunshot to
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  Speaker 5: the head.
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  Speaker 2: The bullet struck the back of Yanalise's head. Her parents
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  Speaker 2: rushed her to meet emergency responders from Hialeah Fire and Rescue.
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  Speaker 2: Jan Ealse was transported to Jackson Ryder Trauma Center that
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  Speaker 2: she was pronounced dead there. Investigators believe the fatal shot
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  Speaker 2: came from celebratory gunfire. Miami Dade Police wrote in a statement,
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  Speaker 2: quote what goes up must come down, urging the public
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  Speaker 2: to avoid firing weapons in the air. Uh They're asking
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  Speaker 2: for tips to identify the shooter in this case, and
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  Speaker 2: have offered a five thousand dollars reward for information that
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  Speaker 2: leads to an arrest. Janalse's family describes her as joyful
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  Speaker 2: and smart, her father holding a drawing she made for
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  Speaker 2: him on Father's Day, telling WTVJ, quote, she was the
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  Speaker 2: most beautiful. I'll never have another like her, her grandfather said.
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  Speaker 2: He struggles to explain her death to her six year
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  Speaker 2: old brother. He says, quote, it hurts my soul speaking
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  Speaker 2: of the little girl's excitement every time he visited. Detective
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  Speaker 2: Andre Martin highlighting the dangers of celebratory gunfire, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 2: we have a ten year old girl who lost her
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  Speaker 2: life at the beginning of the year. This is a
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  Speaker 2: prime example of the dangers of shooting a firearm indiscriminately
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  Speaker 2: into the air. The tragedy coming as law enforcement in
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  Speaker 2: South Florida continues efforts to stop celebratory gun fire during holidays.
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  Speaker 2: Please say they got serious about stray gunfire. After the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven death of five year old Rakiah Isaac
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  Speaker 2: in Miami, Yahalz's family is now planning her funeral authorities
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  Speaker 2: or urging anyone with information to contact Miami Dade Crime
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  Speaker 2: Stoppers at three ZHO five four seven one tips.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Nicole Parton. An update on a missing toddler we
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  Speaker 5: brought to you earlier. In Fayette County, Alabama. New court
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  Speaker 5: documents released on Tuesday shed light on the serious charges
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  Speaker 5: facing Wendy Pamelap Bailey of a missing toddler. These documents
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  Speaker 5: allege that Bailey failed to report known instances of child
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  Speaker 5: abuse inflicted upon her fifteen month old son, Caleb Collins,
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  Speaker 5: this by his father, Stephen Bailey Collins in July twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: The filings claimed that Bailey exhibited a blatant disregard for
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  Speaker 5: Caleb's safety, neglecting to intervene during two separate instances of
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  Speaker 5: severe abuse, which involved methods such as binding him with
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  Speaker 5: rope and physically assaulting him, leaving visible injuries. The documents
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  Speaker 5: indicate that there is photographic evidence to support these allegations.
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  Speaker 5: Other charges include abuse of corpse. The documents describe how
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  Speaker 5: Caleb's remains were handled in a manner deemed shocking to
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  Speaker 5: social norms following his death. His body was reportedly placed
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  Speaker 5: in a bag and stored in an outdoor shed for
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  Speaker 5: a period of time before being disposed in an undisclosed location. Additionally,
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  Speaker 5: the court record's detailed incidents involving domestic violence, including a
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  Speaker 5: concerning text from Stephen Collins to Bailey in which he
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  Speaker 5: threatened to kill Caleb. This was accompanied by disturbing photographs
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  Speaker 5: of the child, showing him hanging from a rope and
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  Speaker 5: displaying blood on his body. Reportedly, Collin's messages included apologies
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  Speaker 5: and indications of the child's condition, to which Bailey responded
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  Speaker 5: with remarks suggesting she believed Caleb was merely tired and hurt.
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  Speaker 5: As the investigation continues, The Sheriff's office has been actively
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  Speaker 5: searching for Caleb for three weeks, with officials believing the
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  Speaker 5: boy is dead when de Bailey is currently in custody
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  Speaker 5: facing multiple charges, including those abusive corpse charges, aggravated child
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  Speaker 5: abuse charges, and others. Her father, John Bailey, is also
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  Speaker 5: being held at the Fayette County Jail on a one
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  Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars bond for failing to report his grandson's disappearance.
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  Speaker 5: The child's father was killed in a traffic accident along
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  Speaker 5: with the child's toddler's sister. For the latest crime injustice news,
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  Speaker 5: with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Park and Happy New Year.