The first lawsuit in connection with the New Year’s Day Bourbon Street terror attack has been announced, with a local law firm alleging that negligence by the City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Police Department enabled the devastating events that claimed 14 lives and left dozens injured.

Maples & Connick, LLC, a New Orleans-based trial firm, stated in a news release that it will file the suit on behalf of a survivor of the attack on Wednesday, January 8, at 8:30 a.m.

The firm asserts that the attack, carried out by US-born Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was both "foreseeable and preventable." According to the statement, Jabbar exploited failures in basic safety measures implemented by the city and police.

“Because of the negligence of the NOPD and the City of New Orleans, 14 innocent lives were lost. Dozens more were injured, and the courses of their lives forever changed," the firm said in a release.