A devastating attack on New Year’s Day in New Orleans left at least 10 people dead and dozens more injured when a pickup truck, bearing an ISIS flag, plowed into a crowd celebrating on Bourbon Street. The driver, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar of Texas, died after jumping out of the truck and trading gunfire with responding officers.
The attack occurred just days after a pro-ISIS outlet called on Muslims to wage Islamic jihad in the US, Europe, and Russia on New Year’s Eve. The outlet, which broadcast on Telegram, urged Muslims to “seize opportunities and attack them like a hungry lion attacks its heedless prey” and to “repeat the days of terror against the Crusaders with killing, spite and torture.”
The FBI is working to determine whether Jabbar had any connections to the terrorist organization. The attack has left the city reeling and comes on the heels of a series of recent terrorist attacks, including one in Germany on Christmas Eve that left five people dead and over 200 others injured.