FBI officials now say their investigation into the deadly truck attack in New Orleans is 'crossing state and international borders' and that the man who drove into a crowd of pedestrians in the city had travelled to both Egypt and Canada in 2023.

The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday.

The man behind the deadly truck ramming in New Orleans travelled to Egypt and Canada before the New Year's Day attack, although it is not yet clear whether those trips were connected to the attack, the FBI said at a news conference on Sunday.

On Sunday, the FBI said its investigation crossed state and international borders with agents following leads in several states and other countries.

FBI special agent Lyonel Myrthil told reporters in Louisiana on Sunday that the 42-year-old man responsible for 14 deaths on Bourbon St. on New Year’s Day in New Orleans had travelled by air to Cairo in June 2023 before stopping over in Ontario on his way back to the United States.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans says the man behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street travelled to Ontario in July 2023. Special agent Lyonel Myrthil says the ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed new details about the New Orleans attacker and said that Shamsud Din Jabbar travelled to Cairo and Ontario prior to the attack and used Meta glasses to record the street.

The FBI is investigating trips by the man who killed 14 people on Bourbon Street to Egypt and Canada in the months before the New Year's Day attack — as well as previous visits he made to New Orleans, plus stops at Texas gun stores in recent months, officials said.

From June 2023 to December 2024, the suspect traveled to Cairo, Egypt; Ontario, Canada; and New Orleans, purchasing weapons and hiding explosives.

NEW ORLEANS — The man responsible for the truck ... also traveled to Cairo, Egypt, as well as Ontario, Canada, before the attack, although it was not yet clear whether those trips were connected ...

A few days later he flew to Ontario, Canada, on July 10 and returned to the U.S. on July 13 of 2023," Lyonel Myrthil, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans field office, said at a press briefing. "Our agents are getting answers as to where he went ...

"The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened," Biden said in a filmed address to the nation.