A Missouri resident has been taken into custody under allegations of distributing bomb-making instructions online. These guides were reportedly utilized by an ISIS-affiliated terrorist responsible for a deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
The suspect, 40-year-old Jordan Derrick, faces accusations of creating and sharing videos on social media that demonstrate the construction of explosives, including detonators, as announced by federal prosecutors on Tuesday.
Authorities claim that these instructional videos were accessed by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the terrorist who drove a truck into a crowd celebrating New Year’s Eve in New Orleans on January 1, 2025. This tragic event resulted in the deaths of 14 individuals and left many others injured.
Jabbar allegedly utilized Derrick’s tutorials to assemble the homemade bombs he strategically placed throughout New Orleans prior to the assault, according to federal complaints.
In the aftermath of the attack, investigators reportedly discovered RDX, one of the explosive compounds featured in Derrick’s videos, inside Jabbar’s vehicle.
Fortunately, the bombs Jabbar had positioned near the iconic Bourbon Street did not detonate as intended.
The devices Jabbar planted around the famed Bourbon Street never ended up detonating.
Jabbar was later killed in a shootout with cops.
Derrick, meanwhile, was hit with a slew of charges on Tuesday — including manufacturing explosives, unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive device and distributing information related to the manufacturing of explosives.
