FBI finds no ‘criminal intent’ in New Orleans attacker’s Tampa visit
The FBI has found no evidence that a late-October visit to Tampa by the man behind a New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans was related to “criminal intent,” the agency announced Wednesday. It remains unclear exactly why Shamsud-Din Jabbar came to Tampa about nine weeks before he drove a rented truck through a crowd of people in New Orleans’ French Quarter and engaged in a fatal gunfight with police.