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The FBI confirmed Wednesday the agency has classified the mass killing in New Orleans in the pre-dawn hours of New Year’s Day an act of terrorism and that it will lead the investigation. 

“This morning, an individual drove a car into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing a number of people and injuring dozens of others,” the FBI wrote on the social media platform, X. “The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism.”

New Orleans officials and the FBI at first seemed to disagree on whether the incident of a driver plowing into a crowd of people in the city’s famed French Quarters was indeed a terrorism act.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell called the incident a terrorist attack, while FBI agent Alethea Duncan said, “This is not a terrorist event,” according to CNN.

Ten people have been pronounced dead, and 35 have been reportedly injured in the incident that occurred at about 3:15 a.m.,  just hours before New Orleans will host one of college football’s biggest games, the Sugar Bowl.

The suspect in the incident was killed in a shootout with police, according to local law enforcement.