The man responsible for a deadly attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, the FBI said in a statement. He previously served in the U.

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.

Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told a press conference the perpetrator was ‘hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did’