New Orleans latest: Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s brother says sibling was radicalized as Biden sets date to visit Louisiana

U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are reportedly concerned about copycat vehicle-ramming attacks following the attack in New Orleans.

The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center “are concerned about possible copycat or retaliatory attacks,” according to a bulletin seen by Reuters.

Such attacks “are likely to remain attractive for aspiring assailants given vehicles’ ease of acquisition and the low skill threshold necessary to conduct an attack”, the bulletin said.

The bulletin was issued a day after the FBI said the attacker Shamsud-Din JabbarJabbar was “100 percent inspired” by ISIS. 14 innocent people were killed in the attack and dozens more were injured.

A former Princeton football star. An aspiring nurse. A college freshman. A cherished son. A devoted mom.

These are among the victims of the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that left at least 14 people dead and dozens injured when a 42-year-old Army veteran plowed a truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in what the FBI is investigating as an “act of terrorism.”

With more victims being identified each day since the tragedy, here is a recap of those who have been remembered by loved ones so far:

A 63-year-old New Orleans native has been identified as one of the victims of the New Year’s Day atrocity.

Terrence Kennedy, affectionately known as “Terry” by his loved ones, had gone to Bourbon Street to enjoy a drink to ring in the new year, his niece told the Times-Picayune.

Kennedy, one of nine children, was “just enjoying his city and not bothering nobody,” Monisha James said, adding that her uncle was “the nicest person in the world.”

He grew up in Uptown New Orleans and was a graduate of Walter Cohen High School. His family said he was a fan of NFL football and his favorite team was the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The wife of the Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger left him just days before he detonated the vehicle outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, according to a report.

The active-duty Green Beret had argued with his wife after she told him she suspected he had been cheating, the New York Post reports, citing law enforcement sources.

Rhian Lubin has the story:

Despite the New Orleans attack, experts don’t see an elevated threat from ISIS — instead, it’s a steady threat that never left, Richard Hall writes:

An Amazon worker who was among the dozens of victims injured in the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street says that the retail giant refused her request for time off so that she could recover.

Alexis Scott-Windham, 23, was shot and had her foot run over by Shamsud-Din Jabbar as she tried to get out of the way of his speeding vehicle.

According to NOLA.com, Scott-Windham needs to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot, but the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.

She worries she'll have to find a new job once she's recovered. "Other than that, I'm just thankful to be here," Scott-Windham told the outlet. "I just want to tell my story to everybody. I don't want to take life for granted. It's really opened my eyes."

The CEO of car-rental company Turo – where both Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger rented their vehicles – says he is “outraged” by the abuse of the platform.

In an updated statement on Friday, Andre Haddad said the company had spent “tense, mournful hours” assisting law enforcement with their investigations and “working around the clock to figure out how our platform could be misused by the perpetrators of such atrocities.”

“Thinking about the victims and their families, I’m shocked, saddened, and, more than anything else, just simply heartbroken. Their stories are crushing. Their loss is unfathomable and unfair,” he said. “Thinking about how egregiously the two individuals who perpetrated these heinous crimes abused our platform, I’m outraged.”

The New Orleans City Council is set to do a “deep-dive investigation” into why the security bollards on Bourbon Street were missing the morning of the attack.

“We have had some contradictory messages internally as far as when the work was awarded and when it should have started, and I know from my perspective as the incoming Council president, we are going to do our own deep-dive investigation over the coming weeks to go into that,” Councilman JP Morrell told CNN on Friday morning.