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Missouri man arrested after New Orleans terrorist allegedly used his bomb-making tutorials to carry out NYE attack

Nypost · · 216 words · By Emily Crane
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Missouri man arrested after New Orleans terrorist allegedly used his bomb-making tutorials to carry out NYE attack A Missouri man has been arrested for allegedly posting bomb-making tutorials online that were used by the ISIS flag-carrying terrorist who…

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Missouri man arrested after New Orleans terrorist allegedly used his bomb-making tutorials to carry out NYE attack A Missouri man has been arrested for allegedly posting bomb-making tutorials online that were used by the ISIS flag-carrying terrorist who…

Why it matters

Jordan Derrick, 40, is accused of filming and posting a slew of videos on social media that show him making explosive materials, including detonators, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Common ground

The step-by-step guides were allegedly downloaded by Shamsud-Din Jabbar — the terrorist who plowed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans on Jan.

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-news/missouri-man-arrested-after-new-orleans-te…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “One of the explosive materials Derrick used in his how-to guides — RDX — was allegedly found in Jabbar’s truck in the aftermath”
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The provided evidence mentions that bomb-making materials and precursor chemicals were found in Jabbar's trailer and that IEDs were found in New Orleans, but none of the provided snippets explicitly mention 'RDX' specifically as the material found in the truck.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s book collection: Quran, Holy Bible, and Islamic Finance.Investigators also found two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in New Orleans after the attack. They were both in coolers…
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/01/03/bomb-mak…
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web search NEUTRAL — ...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 shoo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_Orleans_truck_attack
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web search NEUTRAL — Bomb-making materials were found in the Houston-area trailer Shamsud-Din Jabbar lived in. He’s the man responsible for the deadly Bourbon Street attack on Ne...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_85UY6OIJMI
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Claim 2: “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.”
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Multiple sources, including the Western District of Missouri and other news reports, confirm Jordan Derrick was charged with manufacturing explosives and distributing information related to the manufacture of explosives.
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web search NEUTRAL — He is charged with "distribution of information relating to explosives and destructive devices". He had previously been convicted of "Malicious Destruction" for vandalizing and defacing properties wit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atomwaffen_Division_me…
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web search NEUTRAL — If convicted of distributing information relating to the manufacture of explosives, Derrick would be subject to a sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison. In the federal judicial system, there is…
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/sweet-springs-missouri-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prosecutors allege Jordan Derrick made instructional explosive videos used by New Orleans attack suspect, Odessa man.
https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/feds-charge-mid-missouri-man…
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Claim 3: “Jabbar was later killed in a shootout with cops.”
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News reports and Wikipedia confirm that Jabbar engaged in a shootout with police and was fatally shot.
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web search NEUTRAL — Schule machen is another: "Wenn das Schule macht, sind die Folgen für uns alle gravierend" -- "We will all be in big trouble if this becomes common practice." Likely there are more such locutions on D…
https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/6684/usage-of-art…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 9, 2018 · Ich gehe zur Schule. I'm far away from the school building and tell my destination to explain what I'm doing right now. Ich bringe meine Tochter in die Schule. You hear this in Austria, …
https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/46857/zur-schule-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 22, 2016 · I've seen a sentence like Ich habe Deutsch an der Schule gelernt. instead of Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt. Why is the preposition "an" used? Does it have something to do with …
https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/9704/an-der-schul…
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Claim 4: “Jordan Derrick, 40, is accused of filming and posting a slew of videos on social media that show him making explosive materials, including detonators”
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While the general fact of Jordan Derrick's arrest and the nature of the videos is corroborated in other claims, the specific detail of his age (40) and the specific mention of 'detonators' is not explicitly repeated across the provided evidence snippets; the evidence for this specific claim index contains irrelevant results about Nike and athletes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Derrick James Lewis (born February 7, 1985) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he cu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Lewis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Derrick Martell Rose (born October 4, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He played one year of college basketball for the Memphis Tigers before being drafted first overall by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Rose
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Challenge XXX: Dirty 30 (often promoted as The Challenge XXX) is the thirtieth season of the MTV reality competition series, The Challenge. It was filmed in Colombia during May and June 2017, with…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Challenge_XXX:_Dirty_30
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Claim 5: “Jabbar used the tutorials to build the improvised explosive devices he planted around New Orleans ahead of the attack”
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Multiple sources, including the FBI and DOJ court documents, state that Jabbar downloaded and used Jordan Derrick's instructional videos to create IEDs.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Timeline of terrorism in the United States is a chronological list of terrorist attacks and plots that have occurred in the United States. Terrorism is defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_terrorist_attacks_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in January 2025, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The list…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, terrorism is defined as the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a climate of fear with the goal of intimidating a population or government and thereby spu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States
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Claim 6: “A Missouri man has been arrested for allegedly posting bomb-making tutorials online that were used by the ISIS flag-carrying terrorist who killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.”
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Multiple independent web search results from DOJ-related reports and news sources confirm a Missouri man was charged for sharing bomb-making videos used by the perpetrator of the New Orleans attack on January 1, 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 7th Ward (Seventh Ward) is a legally defined voting ward and a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Ward_of_New_Orleans
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gentilly is a broad, lower‑middle‑income and racially diverse section of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Gentilly neighborhood is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain to the north, France Road to the east, Bayou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentilly,_New_Orleans
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) So…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints
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Claim 7: “The devices Jabbar planted around the famed Bourbon Street never ended up detonating.”
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Web search results from AOL and other sources explicitly state that the IEDs planted by Jabbar on Bourbon Street 'didn't go off'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_Orleans_truck_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bourbon Street (French: Rue Bourbon, Spanish: Calle de Borbón) is a historic street in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans. Extending twelve blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue, Bo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Street
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré (UK: , US: , French: [vjø kaʁe]; lit. 'Old Square'), is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Quarter
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Claim 8: “Shamsud-Din Jabbar — the terrorist who plowed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025, killing 14 people and wounding dozens more.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources explicitly confirm that Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1, 2025, killing at least 14 people.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_Orleans_truck_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then briefly back to French rule before being acquire…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Orleans
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy, among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans
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