Victims of the New Year’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans are now suing the city and its police department. The attack took place early on January 1, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar from Texas drove a Ford-150 truck into a crowd celebrating New Year’s. He killed 14 people and injured many others before being shot and killed by police.
On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed by Morris Bart, LLC, on behalf of seven victims. The lawsuit targets the City of New Orleans, Hard Rock Construction, and engineering firm Mott MacDonald. It claims that these parties were negligent in providing necessary security measures that could have prevented the attack. The lawsuit says the defendants had several opportunities to address known security risks before the tragedy.
The lawsuit highlights that Mott MacDonald had identified a similar risk months before the attack. The engineering firm had even predicted the possibility of a truck like Jabbar’s entering Bourbon Street. The plaintiffs argue that better security planning could have stopped Jabbar from reaching the street altogether…