Missouri Man Charged With Posting Bomb-Making Tutorials Used in New Orleans Attack

A Missouri man was arrested and charged Tuesday with posting online bomb-making tutorials that federal prosecutors said were used by the terrorist who carried out the Jan. 1, 2025, attack in New Orleans. Jordan Derrick, 40, of Missouri, faces charges of manufacturing explosives, unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive device and distributing information related to the manufacturing of explosives, according to New York Post reported.

Derrick is accused of filming and posting a slew of videos on social media that show him making explosive materials, including detonators. The step-by-step guides were downloaded by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who plowed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025.

Jabbar killed 14 people and wounded dozens more in the terror attack. He carried an ISIS flag during the assault. Jabbar used the tutorials to build improvised explosive devices that he planted around New Orleans ahead of the attack, a federal complaint states.

One of the explosive materials Derrick used in his how-to guides — RDX — was found in Jabbar’s truck after the attack, court filings show. The explosive devices planted by Jabbar around Bourbon Street never detonated.

Jabbar was killed in a shootout with police after the truck attack. New York Post reported that Derrick is accused of posting bomb-making tutorials online. Shamsud-Din Jabbar carried out a terror attack in New Orleans on January 1, 2025.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar downloaded Jordan Derrick’s bomb-making tutorials and used the tutorials to build improvised explosive devices planted around New Orleans. The charges against Derrick were filed on Tuesday. Federal prosecutors linked his videos directly to materials recovered from the New Orleans scene.

The homemade explosive devices planted around Bourbon Street during the New Orleans New Year’s Day terror attack remained inert.