Flames engulfed the Airbnb used by the slain New Orleans terror suspect on Wednesday morning—two hours after 15 people were fatally mowed down on the city’s famous Bourbon Street. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News the suspect, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, rented a home and used it as a site to make explosive devices along with alleged accomplices. A house fire at the rental broke out in the St. Roch neighborhood around 5 a.m. and “dozens of people” were forced to evacuate, the Times-Picayune reported. Jabbar’s apparent co-conspirators are yet to be identified or arrested, and their alleged explosive devices—said to have been placed around the city—were diffused before they could explode. Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Texas, was gunned down by police after he rammed a Ford pickup truck into dozens of New Year’s Eve revelers who were still enjoying the night around 3:30 a.m. local time. Before he was shot dead, authorities said he opened fire at police and injured two New Orleans cops. His truck, a Turo rental, was discovered to be carrying an ISIS flag—but the FBI has yet to determine officially what his motive was.
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