Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, has been identified as the suspect who drove a car into a crowd of people along Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Jabbar was shot and killed by officers after opening fire on them during the attack. Two New Orleans police officers were injured.

Hundreds of people packed the first block of Bourbon Street off Canal as a light drizzle fell from a gun-metal grey sky. A brass band played, and a second line wound its way up Canal and onto Bourbon Street.