New Orleans’ renowned Bourbon Street was turned into a catastrophe when a man named Shamsud Din Jabbar ‘hell-bent’ on ‘carnage’ crashed a vehicle with an ISIS flag on it into rejoicing crowds
Hours after the people celebrated the New Year, ten people were killed and about thirty were injured. Since multiple IEDs were discovered on the scene, the FBI has taken up the investigation and is currently looking into it as a terrorist act by Shamsud Din Jabbar.
In a statement, President-elect Donald Trump denounced the incident and promised that his government will help the investigation into this “act of evil” to the fullest extent possible.
Did the truck driven by Shamsud Din Jabbar have an ISIS flag on it and what was the motive of the suspect of the Bourbon Street, New Orleans attack
“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true,” Trump said.
Who is Shamsud Din Jabbar?
The New Orleans attacker is Shamsud Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Muslim man from Texas. After the attacker killed at least ten people, injured about thirty, and fired at two police officers from his truck, the FBI verified that he was dead.
After authorities told media that the driver behind the New Orleans attack that killed ten people on New Year’s Day was dead, the FBI has confirmed the news. The suspect was murdered on the spot after allegedly shooting at cops. On Wednesday, American Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, was recognized as the individual.
The perpetrator of the New Orleans truck attack, Shamsud Din Jabbar who was a Muslim by religion, was raised in Beaumont, Texas and was in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020 and also worked IT at Deloitte. He had a stolen Glock and a .308 rifle with him at the time of the attack.
In a YouTube video from 2020 that was posted by Jabbar, he spoke about his skills in real estate and said he had been born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, and had served in the U.S. military for 10 years as a human resources and IT specialist.
“I’ve been here all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military,” he said.
He said that in his 10 years in the armed forces, he had worked as a human resources specialist and an information technology specialist and Jabbar was married twice, with his first marriage ending in 2012. In the midst of a second divorce in January 2022, Jabbar wrote an email to his wife’s lawyer in which he described financial problems and said he could not afford the house payment.
He said in the email that the business corporation he had formed, a real estate company, had lost more than $28,000 and he had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt in order to pay for lawyers and for establishing a second residence and suggested that he and his wife sell the house and divide the proceeds evenly.
Jabbar’s father-in-law from a recent marriage in Texas, Lawrence Kuykendall, said that his family hadn’t spoken to Jabbar recently.
Court and property records show Jabbar lived in Fresno, Texas with his wife before they divorced in August 2022 and held a real estate license from 2019 to 2023 and worked for Deloitte, one of the nation’s largest financial services companies.
Divorce filings show that Jabbar’s ex-wife said he had money troubles and Jabbar reported a health insurance policy through the U.S. Military. His ex-wife, Shaneen McDaniel, said in court filings that Jabbar wasted the couple’s money through excessive cash withdrawals, gifts to paramours and unreasonable and unnecessary spending that she said accumulated a mound of debt.
This New Year’s nightmare was carried out by Shamsud Din Jabbar in a white vehicle. The license plate is from Texas and the truck was bought in August.
The FBI identified New Orleans truck driver sis[ect that had ISIS flag on his truck have been identified as "Shamsud Din Jabbar" and he has a youtube channel and he also is a real estate person.. #Terroristattack DEI FBI pic.twitter.com/XjnImSUKii
— KingJames (@hazem3903497114) January 1, 2025
On the back of the truck was a black ISIS flag. According to Fox News, two days before the attack, the vehicle was traced as it crossed the southern border into the United States in Eagle Pass, Texas. Whether the attacker was operating the vehicle when it crossed the border is yet unknown.
His immigration status has not yet been determined. There is no official information on whether the attacker is Mexican.
Although there was no DUI involved, the assailant was deliberate and determined to murder as many people as possible.
Despite police roadblocks, the murderer managed to drive through them. The driver was moving really quickly. Investigators don’t believe he was intoxicated or that he made a mistake.
The killer’s truck was stopped after crashing into a crane in the middle of the street.
#Terroristattack
So the license plate holder is Mac Haik Ford, a dealership in Houston Tx pic.twitter.com/C7HbAv4tQU— JFMurphy78 🍊 (@JFMurf) January 1, 2025
Some reports claimed the suspect was wearing bullet-proof body armour though there is no confirmation. Media said the attacker jumped out of the vehicle and opened fire on police after hitting the crowd.
The FBI is now investigating the attack as an act of terrorism and Police Commissioner Anne Kirkpatrick said the driver was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did” and he tried “to run over as many people as he could.” Kirkpatrick said two police officers were shot after the driver emerged from the truck and are in stable condition at the moment. No motive has been identified as of now.
Law enforcement believe Jabbar had accomplices, though they have not publicly identified any.