New Orleans latest updates: Death toll from vehicle attack rises to 15

Bernd Debusmann Jr
reporting from New Orleans

There’s still an extremely heavy police presence in the area where the incident took place in the early hours of the morning.

I’m currently on Canal Street, just a few feet from the corner of Bourbon Street – where video shows Shamsud-Din Jabbar taking a hard right turn around a police car and ploughing into a crowd of people.

From where I’m standing, I can count 20 or so marked police cars, in addition to black SUVs and a large white van being used by investigators.

The entire area is cordoned off with yellow police tape.

While the scene has attracted a small crowd of curious onlookers, business in the wider area seems to be as normal, with trickles of revellers stepping in and out of bars at the beginning of the evening.

Across the street, a few people are window shopping at Foot Locker, commenting on the trainers available.

A Michael Jackson impersonator is also moonwalking on the pavement, just a few feet from the police tape.