2025 New Orleans truck attack
| 2025 New Orleans truck attack | |
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| Part of domestic terrorism in the United States | |
CCTV recording of pedestrians avoiding the truck | |
| Location | Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 29°57′22″N 90°4′4.4″W / 29.95611°N 90.067889°W |
| Date | January 1, 2025 3:15–3:17 a.m. CST (UTC-6) |
| Target | Pedestrians |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming attack, shootout, mass murder, domestic terrorism, attempted bombing |
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| Deaths | 15 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 57 |
| Perpetrator | Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar |
| Motive | Islamic extremism inspired by the Islamic State |
On January 1, 2025, at around 3:15 a.m. CST (UTC–6), Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old American man, drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, then exited the truck and engaged in a shootout with police before being fatally shot. Fourteen victims were killed, plus the perpetrator, and at least fifty-seven others were injured, including two police officers who were shot. The attack occurred during New Year celebrations in the city, which was scheduled to host the 2025 Sugar Bowl later that day.
The assailant, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was an American-born resident of Houston, Texas. An Islamic State (ISIS) flag was found in the truck. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) determined that Jabbar had been inspired by ISIS. It investigated the matter as domestic terrorism, since there was no evidence of any foreign direction behind the attack. Jabbar, who had been radicalized, posted videos pledging his allegiance to ISIS in the hours before the attack.