That is truly disturbing.
Something I have never thought about until now.
The quiet of electric vehicles is something that has everyday concerns. Many visually impaired people depend on the sound of vehicles to safely navigate.
Googling the name before a zillion articles about him are written, I found public records of a divorce case from 2021. A contested divorce case, with restraining orders filed.
Did a bitter divorce lead to isolation and radicalization?
When I was in Norway and Denmark last year I was very surprised at the lack of sound. I almost got myself in a couple accidents until I developed my EV hyper vigilance.
The fbi reports that the suspect was a U.S. citizen from Texas with an isis flag. IEDs have been found in the truck and other locations on bourbon street.
It seems he may have had a YouTube channel… For his work, though. Very normal, prosperous, American.
If the real estate agent with the YouTube channel is indeed him, he served in the military.
In the photo posted above, the flag at the back of the truck is plainly visible.
I’m watching footage right now on MSNBC of EMTs doing chest compression on the body of the driver next to the truck, and the flag is not there.
Annnnnmd the YouTube account is gone.
I got to it earlier and watched his “welcome” video where, with a Texas accent, he explains how his time in the military gave him the skills he needs to sell YOUR house. And he mentions being born in Texas, too.
I wanted to see if there were any other videos posted to it, but it is gone now.
I take the channel’s quick deletion as soft confirmation that it is the same guy.
In the publicly-available divorce documents, it states that he is/was in the US military.
Press conference now.
US born suspect, isis flag on vehicle, fbi believe others may be involved. Reports are he was in the military.
I didn’t feel like downloading those, but if you already did - does it mention a real estate business that he is the owner of? (The video doesn’t say he owns the firm but I’ve seen other claims that he does).
I don’t know.
I should also qualify my previous statement. The format in which I could view the document made it very difficult to see what box was/wasn’t checked.
I just Googled, and the NYT says:
In a court document that the suspect filed in August 2022 as part of a divorce proceeding, he said he worked at the accounting firm Deloitte and made about $120,000 a year.
ETA: also:
I owned a plug in hybrid for a few years, and i thought about it a lot. You know how if you are driving, and you want to exit a parking lot, and pedestrians are standing in the driveway to the lot, chatting, they generally drift out of your way? That’s because they hear your car. Driving in electric mode, they didn’t hear my car. And I’d sit there thinking, “am i the asshole if i honk at them? Should i roll down the window and say something?”
I guess that makes it a good choice for this kind of thing. 
That’s the video I watched, that is now inaccessible. So the NYT confirmed that guy was him?
I didn’t know Deloite employed real estate agents, but apparently they do. So it’s not as difficult a circle to square as I thought.
There’s a press conference currently underway regarding the attack.
I think that may overstate the NYT’s position a bit:
They’re hedging – probably for good reason – for now.
I’m not sure we know that as of right now. He may have been an accountant as a primary occupation and either worked in real estate or owned a real estate brokerage as a side hustle.
Maybe.
It’s being reported that the Sugar Bowl is being postponed until tomorrow night.
They’re talking a lot about “bringing those responsible to justice” - it sounds like they’re pretty confident this wasn’t a lone wolf attack?
It could just be a good sounding sound byte, but wouldn’t that backfire if no one is ever caught?
Wow, the press conference is going off the rails.
Holy shit, this bollard situation sounds almost criminally negligent. “We had a plan, but the terrorist defeated it by - I don’t know if you know he did this - driving on the sidewalk”.