Shamsud Din Jabbar is the name of the suspect who carried out the Bourbon Street, New Orleans attack
At least 10 people were killed, and dozens were injured early Wednesday when a suspect who was “hell-bent” on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and smashed his vehicle through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at a high speed.
Law enforcement authorities informed on the event that the man allegedly got out of the truck with an assault rifle and started fire on police officers after mowing down a large number of people along a three-block span on the renowned street while shooting into the crowd. According to authorities, the suspect, who was not immediately recognized, was killed when officers returned fire.
Who is Shamsud Din Jabbar suspect who carried out truck attack in Bourbon Street, New Orleans attack, bio, age, nationality, ethnicity, religion and photo
Horrific footage from New Orleans what appears to be a terrorist attack.
A truck rammed through a crowd celebrating new year's & the attacker came out of it shooting.
The attacker has been neutralized.
It appears that there is a flag on the back of truck but it's covered up… pic.twitter.com/xTOHT6wz2T
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) January 1, 2025
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.
“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.
That's absolutely an ISIS flag. pic.twitter.com/QSp8swFyYP
— David (@_ALibertyWizard) January 1, 2025
The suspected terror attack that killed 10 and injured 35 on a New Year’s Day event saw the 42-year-old shot and killed in a firefight with cops just moments after he plowed into crowds on the famed Bourbon Street just after 3 a.m. and law enforcement recovered a handgun and an AR-style rifle from the driver. Reports said the man was born in Texas and also worked in the Army with the pickup truck he was driving having Texas plates. The truck is also said to have had a black flag flying to it which is claimed to be of the ISIS.
The vehicle used in the New Orleans attack, an electric Ford pickup, was registered to a Houston man who made vehicles available for rent.
A pickup vehicle crashed down Bourbon Street in the city’s well-known French Quarter at approximately 3:15 a.m. local time on January 1, killing ten people and wounding about thirty-five more.
Shamsud Din Jabbar was involved in a police gunfight after he crashed his truck in New Orleans, leaving two officers hurt but stable. The driver’s death during the encounter was previously reported by the New Orleans Police Department.
With hundreds of people in town for Wednesday night’s Sugar Bowl game and others celebrating the New Year’s Day holiday in the French Quarter, the mass casualty tragedy happened during a busy time in New Orleans.
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.
🚨 #BREAKING: The New Orleans attacker has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, who had an ISIS flag, per NOLA
We also know now the rented truck contained explosives, and he was wearing full body armor.
We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a… pic.twitter.com/o1AdvmhE2o
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 1, 2025
Assistant Special Agent in charge of FBI New Orleans Alethea Duncan told reporters at the time, “This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is there are improvised explosive devices that was found, and we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.”
“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 said in a new statement.
The perpetrator of the New Orleans truck attack, Shamsud Din Jabbar, was raised in Texas and was in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020. Additionally, according to Karol Markowicz of the NY Post and Fox News, he had a stolen Glock and a .308 rifle with him. pic.twitter.com/TOdhZVF8R7
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 1, 2025