UPDATE: Law enforcement sources confirm to ABC News Identity of New Orleans attacker

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UPDATE (1:41 p.m.): ABC News confirms that the death toll in the New Orleans vehicle ramming attack has risen to 15.

UPDATE (12:39 p.m.): Law enforcement sources have told ABC News the suspect in the New Orleans vehicle ramming attack is Shamsud Din Jabbar.

Authorities are working to determine whether he had any affiliation with ISIS.

UPDATE (11:12 a.m.): It appears that the truck used in the New Orleans attack, a white Ford F150, was rented through an app called Turo, a carsharing company.

ABC's Chris Looft spoke to truck owner Rodrigo Diaz, who rented his truck to an individual through Turo, stating that he is speaking with the FBI and declined to comment further.

Diaz's wife Dora spoke with ABC News stating, " My husband rents cars through the Turo app. I can’t tell you anything else. I’m here with my kids, and this is devastating.”

ORIGINAL: NEW ORLEANS. -- Louisiana State Police are reporting a vehicle has intentionally driven through a crowd on Bourbon Street early this morning.

ABC News confirms that a pickup truck rammed through a crowd of people just past 3 a.m. this morning killing ten people and injuring at least thirty on Bourbon Street in New Orlean's French Quarter. Police say the suspect was armed with an assault rifle firing shots into the crowd as people were run down. The subject then proceeded to exit the vehicle and continued shooting until he was shot and killed by police on scene. Two officers were shot in the firefight.

The injured were taken to five local hospitals, according to the city. Those being University Medical Center, Touro Hospital, East Jefferson General Hospital, Ochsner Medical Center Jefferson Campus and Ochsner Baptist Campus. 

New Orleans police are on the scene now and say the department is fully staffed and has additional officers supporting the Sugar Bowl college football game happening tonight. 

We are just learning this now so stay with us here online and on air as we work to learn more



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