The FBI assistant special agent in charge who told the media and the public the New Orleans attack was “not a terrorist event” has been reassigned.
Multiple sources informed Fox News that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan has been temporarily reassigned following her initial press conference in which she stated: “This is not a terrorist event.”
The event was investigated as a possible terror attack less than 12 hours later.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen who pledged allegiance to ISIS, killed at least 14 people during the attack and wounded dozens more when he mowed down his victims with a truck that he rented. He then got out and opened fire with a rifle before being shot and killed by police.
The FBI said Jabbar bought two coolers that he later used to conceal IEDs on Bourbon Street and that he drove from his native Houston to New Orleans on Dec. 31 to carry out his planned attack.
In the hours after the chaos unfolded on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day, Duncan spoke at a press conference and declared the attack was not connected to terrorism.
“We’ll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event,” Duncan said during the presser.
During that same press conference, however, the mayor of New Orleans told the media and public that the city did in fact suffer a terror attack.
“Know that the city of New Orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack. It’s all still under investigation,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at the presser.
The FBI previously told Fox News Digital that three different statements were released by the Bureau on the day of the attack.
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