One of the FBI’s challenges when investigating the deadly New Orleans attack is determining whether the suspect was inspired by ISIS or directed by the Islamist militant group, a security expert said.
The attack had “several strategic and symbolic considerations as potentially textbook ISIS,” Sajjan M. Gohel told CNN’s Christina Macfarlane.
“So if you look at the combination of ramming and shooting, it does suggest a desire to maximize casualties. We’ve seen vehicle attacks by ISIS in the past,” said Gohel, International Security Director at the Asia-Pacific Foundation.
“What you then see is that the suspect then seeks to kill as many people as possible, then die in a hail of bullets… what’s described as ‘death by cop’.”
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