2025 New Orleans truck attack
| 2025 New Orleans truck attack | |
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CCTV recording of pedestrians avoiding the truck | |
| Location | 29°57′22″N 90°4′4.4″W / 29.95611°N 90.067889°W Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Date | January 1, 2025 3:15–3:17 a.m. CST (UTC-6) |
| Target | Pedestrians |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming attack, mass murder, domestic terrorism, Islamic terrorism, shootout, attempted bombing |
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| Deaths | 15 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 57 (52 by vehicle-ramming, 5 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar |
| Motive | Islamic extremism inspired by the Islamic State |
The 2025 New Orleans truck attack was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that occurred on January 1, 2025, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old African American Muslim man, rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, 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 was a resident of Houston, Texas, and drove from there to New Orleans. An Islamic State (ISIS) flag was found in the truck used in the killings, and Jabbar had posted videos declaring allegiance to ISIS in the preceding hours. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) determined that Jabbar had been inspired by ISIS, but investigated the matter as domestic terrorism, since there was no evidence of foreign involvement in the attack.