FBI agent in charge of New Orleans terror attack sees shock career move after garbled press

An FBI cause who claimed the New Year's Day onslaught successful New Orleans was 'not a violent event' has been reassigned, sources said. 

Assistant Special Agent successful Charge, Alethea Duncan, has been temporarily reassigned, aggregate sources told Fox News. 

It is unclear wherever she has been reassigned to, but she is inactive employed with the FBI, according to Fox. 

Her reassignment came aft she said astatine a property league that Shamsud-Din Jabbar driving a motortruck into a assemblage wasn't related to terrorism. 

'This is not a violent event,' she said conscionable hours aft the event. 'What it is close present is improvised explosive devices that was recovered and we're moving to corroborate if it's a viable instrumentality oregon not.'

The politician of New Orleans had already referred to the lawsuit arsenic a violent onslaught earlier successful the property league erstwhile Duncan corrected the notion, lone for the national bureau to reverse it.  

After the property conference, the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and President Joe Biden each called the calamity that killed 14 people a violent event. 

The 42-year-old terrorist's motortruck had an ISIS emblem attached to it erstwhile helium drove into the assemblage connected Bourbon Street. He was pronounced dormant astatine the country aft a shootout with police. 

The coroner's bureau said each the victims died from blunt unit injuries. The youngest unfortunate was 18 years aged and the oldest 63. Most victims were successful their 20s.

The Texas-born US national and Army veteran's motive is presently unknown, but reports suggest his beingness had gone disconnected the rails aft helium discontinue the Army successful July 2020. The cash-strapped begetter and treble divorcee's existent property concern was floundering.

Court records amusement Jabbar faced a deteriorating fiscal concern successful 2022 portion separating from his then-wife. Jabbar said helium was down connected location payments and had accumulated recognition paper indebtedness and wanted to rapidly finalize the divorce. 

The FBI said Jabbar had acted alone, reversing its archetypal position. 

On the aforesaid time of his attack, Matthew Livelsberger - who was astatine the aforesaid subject basal arsenic Jabbar - caused a Cybertruck to detonate extracurricular of the Trump Hotel successful Las Vegas, sparking rumors the 2 attacks were connected. 

Livelsberger, 37, was identified by instrumentality enforcement sources arsenic the bomber successful the attack, which near 7 wounded. 

The blast was caused by 'a weaponry carried successful the furniture of the rented Cybertruck' oregon 'very ample fireworks', according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

The $80,000 car was seen successful a fiery blaze extracurricular the beforehand revolving doors of the hotel, sidesplitting 1 and injuring 7 astatine astir 9am, according to Las Vegas police.