Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man suspected of killing 14 people in a New Year's attack in New Orleans, placed homemade explosive devices on Bourbon Street, ABC News reported.
Lyonel Myrthil, special agent in charge of the FBI's New Orleans field office, said to ABC News that video shows Jabbar planting two improvised explosive devices, concealed in coolers, on the streets of the French Quarter prior to the attack.
Footage obtained by ABC News shows one of the IEDs inside a blue ice chest. Authorities told ABC News they discovered a steel galvanized pipe with two end caps surrounded by two dozen rolls of collated nails. There also appeared to be a radio-controlled receiver, according to the photos, ABC News said.
Authorities said they found jars of flammable liquid inside a truck and a large quantity of powdered material along with various pipe pieces, end caps, and a radio receiver inside a New Orleans rental property, ABC News reported.
Joshua Jackson, the special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives field office in New Orleans, said the IEDs failed to go off because Jabbar was shot to death by police before he could detonate them or because he used the wrong mechanism for detonation, according to ABC News.
"He didn't use the right or correct device to set it off, and that is just indicative of his inexperience and lack of understanding how that material might be set off," Jackson said.
Jabbar, an American citizen from Texas, had posted five videos on his Facebook account in the hours before the attack in which he proclaimed his support for the Islamic State militant group and previewed the violence that he would soon unleash in the French Quarter.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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