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.

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