What We Know About The Car Rental App Used In New Orleans Attack, Cybertruck Explosion
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING The vehicles used in the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans and an explosion in Las Vegas were both rented through the same car-sharing app, authorities said, a connection between two incidents that have been otherwise described as unrelated. The vehicles — a Ford F-150 pickup truck that drove through a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing at least 14 people, and a Tesla Cybertruck that erupted in flames outside a Donald Trump-owned hotel — had been rented by their respective drivers through Turo, a company that bills itself as the world’s largest car-sharing marketplace. Police investigators surround the white Ford F-150 pickup truck that crashed into a work lift after driving into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan. 1, 2025. via Associated Press Authorities have branded the New Orleans killings as a terrorist attack and said that the suspect fatally shot by police, 42-year-old Army veteran Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, was inspired by the Islamic State extremist group and acted alone.