Suspicious vehicle sparks panic at US Capitol after New Orleans and Las Vegas terror attacks: Live updates

Capitol Police are investigating a ‘suspicious vehicle’ found near the Capitol.

Officials said officers responded to the area of Constitution Avenue and Third Street and urged locals to avoid the area.

Reports suggest a suspect was seen driving a vehicle erratically on the sidewalk, and the area remains shut down by authorities.

The FBI said in a statement that it is carrying out raids on homes across multiple states as they probe whether New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, acted alone.

Officials said hours after the attack that they believe Jabbar may not have been ‘solely responsible.’

Investigations into the bombing outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel the same day found both vehicles used in the attacks were rented through Turo, raising claims the incidents were linked.

Late in the evening, the FBI said ‘special agents and our law enforcement partners are currently conducting a number of court authorized search warrants in New Orleans and other states.’

Crisis negotiators were called to a chaotic scene in Las Vegas where a person had barricaded himself onto a bus just hours after a Cybertruck exploded outside Donald Trump’s Sin City hotel.

Police were on the scene near Fremont Street and Charleston Boulevard, along with SWAT teams and crisis negotiators. They have since taken the person into custody without incident.

Police have been praised for ‘working overtime’ today after earlier responding to the potential terror threat at Trump’s hotel which injured seven and killed one.

However, officials have not said early in their investigation that the hostage situation was linked to the bombing.

At least 16 victims who survived the New Year’s terror attack in New Orleans remain hospitalized.

Eight of those hospitalized are in the ICU with more serious injuries, while four patients have been transferred to other facilities for specialized care.

13 victims who were hospitalized in the tragedy have been discharged, according to a tweet from NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry faced outrage on Wednesday evening after he posted a cheerful photo of himself enjoying a steak dinner just hours after the New Orleans terrorist attack.

Landry posted a photo of himself giving a thumbs-up with several people outside the Bon Tob Prime Rib steakhouse, which is just 10 minutes away from the site of the 3am terror attack on Bourbon Street.

He attempted to paint it as a defiant act in the face of the terror, captioning the post: ‘Ate dinner tonight in New Orleans. Proud to be a part of this incredibly resilient city. See everyone at the game tomorrow!’

But X users lambasted him for being tone-deaf in the wake of the tragedy, with one responding: ’15 people are dead in NOLA and you’re bragging about your steak dinner?’

LSU gymnast and social media influencer Olivia Dunne and her MLB star boyfriend Paul Skenes were on Bourbon Street the night of the New Years terror attack.

Dunne shared images from the night out alongside Skenes’ Pittsburgh teammate Bubba Chandler and his partner Allie Enright.

Dunne also posted a second image, which appeared to show a packed Bourbon Street hours before the deadly attack, along with a heartbroken emoji.

It is unclear when exactly the group were on Bourbon Street, though the large crowds – seemingly in fine spirits – would suggest it was prior to the attack.

Tesla Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger is a long-serving married soldier who was on leave from active duty when he carried out the attack outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, it has been revealed.

Livelsberger, 37, was identified by law enforcement sources as the bomber who died in the Wednesday attack that also left seven wounded. The electric vehicle exploded about 15 seconds after the driver pulled up in front of the hotel’s valet.

The blast was caused by ‘a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck’ or ‘very large fireworks’, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

He lived in Colorado Springs and was an active member of the Army, and previously received a Meritorious Honor Award for work benefiting the US Embassy in Tajikistan.

Liveslberger was profiled by a local newspaper in Ohio for his work with the military in Afghanistan.

He grew up in Ohio and was married to social worker Sara Livelsberger, who in the lead up to the 2016 election shared a slew of Facebook posts spouting anti-Trump rhetoric.

According to CBS News, Liveslberger was on break from duty in Germany when he carried out the attack.

He lived with his wife, who hadn’t heard from him from several days, in Colorado Springs in a home they bought together in 2015, property records found.

However, police have linked Livelsberger to several addresses throughout the city – including a different townhouse that was raided by the FBI overnight.

President-elect Donald Trump has broken his silence on the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside his Las Vegas hotel, vowing to rid America of ‘violent scum.’

Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to excoriate the security and justice establishment after Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger allegedly exploded the truck on Wednesday morning, killing one and injuring seven.

Trump wrote in a post: ‘Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership.

‘The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself.

‘Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country. The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late. The USA is breaking down – A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation.

‘Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’

It was revealed Thursday morning that the Army veteran who rammed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans had gone though a contentious divorce and an economy crisis before turning to terror.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, who was born and raised in Texas, had successfully climbed the corporate ladder after being dishonorably charged from the military, where he served as a human-resources and information-technology specialist and spent 11 months in Afghanistan.

He went on to study computer-information systems at Georgia State University, held a job at IT company Accenture and gave real estate a try before returning to Texas in 2018, starting a job as a cloud-consulting manager for Ernst & Young, an accounting company.

Jabbar then started work as a ‘senior solutions specialist at Deloitte from 2021 until at least the past fall. According to a pay stub shown in court, he made the equivalent of nearly $125,000 a year.

But Jabbar seemed to crack after his second divorce in 2020, when his then-wife of three years Shaneen Chanti got a restraining order against him.

‘Time is of the essence. I can not afford the house payment. It is past due in excess of $27,000 and in danger of foreclosure if we delay settling the divorce,’ Jabbar wrote in an email to his then-wife’s lawyer in 2022.

Jabbar claimed he was broke at the time, telling the court he had a net monthly income of about $7,500 but monthly expenses that were about $8,960.

He also said the real estate company he had formed had lost more than $28,000 in the previous year and that he had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt.

At some point over the last years Jabbar converted to Islam and became increasingly devout, per some reports.

New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick is promising ‘hundreds of officers’ will be lining the city streets prior to Thursday’s rescheduled Sugar Bowl.

The College Football Playoff quarterfinal between Georgia and Notre Dame was postponed by a day following the New Year’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, a mile away from where the game will be played.

Kirkpatrick told NBC Today ahead of the game on Thursday: ‘We are staffing up at the same level, if not more so, than what we were preparing for the Super Bowl.’

New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno told WDSU-TV earlier Wednesday, before the postponement was announced, that the security perimeter around the Superdome was being ‘extended to be a larger zone.’

‘There are more police officers who are coming in,’ she said.

Authorities have publicly identified seven of the 15 people who tragically lost their lives in the New Orleans terrorist attack.

Former college football star Tiger Bech, 28, was the first to be identified, followed by father-of-two Reggie Hunter, 37, and 18-year-old Ni’kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux.

Nicole Perez, 27, Matthew Tenedioro, Kareem Badawi, and Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, were later confirmed among the deceased by officials.

Top L-R: Hubert Gauthreaux, Tiger Bech and Reggie Hunter. Bottom L-R: Ni’kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, Matthew Tenedorio and Nicole Perez

The man responsible for the Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel served at the same military base as the New Orleans terrorist, according to a new report.

Both terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, and bomber Matthew Livelsberger, 37, served at the same base, however it is not known if they knew each other.

Livelsberger served served 18 of his 19 years in the military’s Special Forces, while Jabbar said he spent a decade in the military before he was honorably discharged.

Federal investigators believe terror suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, prepared the IED explosives in an Airbnb where he stayed before he drove a truck into a crowd os New Year’s revelers.

Investigators are probing the theory he rented a nearby property on Airbnb in St. Roch for his base before carrying out the attack.

Exclusive DailyMail.com photographs show the moment the FBI removed bomb making materials from the two-bedroom and two-bathroom property close to the French Quarter.

A total containment vessel was seen being taken away from the property at around 8pm on New Years Day, hours after authorities had evacuated residents from the area.

Horrific footage captured the moment the New Orleans terror suspect maneuvered around a police barricade and plowed through the unsuspecting crowd on New Years.

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S citizen, drove a rental truck brandishing an ISIS flag into the crowd on Bourbon Street Wednesday morning, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens.

Shocking new surveillance footage obtained by Fox 8 showed Jabbar driving the white Ford F-150 Lightning EV down Canal Street.

Matthew Livelsberger, 37, has been identified as the bomber who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Although officers have not publicly named Livelsberger, a veteran who served 19 years in the Army, as the bomber, senior law enforcement sources confirmed his identity to KOAA and KTNV.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Livelsberger served 18 of his 19 years in the military’s Special Forces. His current role was listed as a Remote and Autonomous Systems Manager, which he had been in for just three months.

Law enforcement sources revealed that Livelsberger, who died Wednesday in the explosion outside the hotel, had previously served at the same military base as New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar. Police have not confirmed if the pair were known to each other.