Terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s truck ramming attack in New Orleans earlier this week killed fourteen innocent revelers and injured more than thirty others, many of whom changed their lives forever.
The youngest victim to die was 18, and the oldest was 63. Most of the dead were in their 20s and came from states such as Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York and New Jersey, and Britain.
Of the more than thirty injured, sixteen are still in hospital, half of whom are in intensive care on Friday.
Jeremi Senski of Pennsylvania told NBC News that he was in his wheelchair when he was hit. (Heaven Sensky)
Dr. Jeffrey Elder of University Medical Center New Orleans told CNN that most of the patients at the hospital were being treated for “blunt trauma,” while a few patients had gunshot wounds.
Here’s what we know about the survivors.
Jeremi Sensky51, from Pennsylvania, told NBC News he was in his wheelchair when he was hit.
Sensky said he has been paralyzed since 1999 and that his “wheelchair was completely destroyed” with pieces scattered about.
He said both his legs were broken, but said he was lucky to be alive. He remembered lying on the floor and seeing the parts of his wheelchair next to him.
Alexis Scott-Windham, an Alabama resident, was shot in the foot and has multiple fractures, NOLA.com reported.
Her friends called her mother for help as she lay bleeding on Bourbon Street, and her mother told them to apply a tourniquet to control her blood flow, NBC News reported.
She described what happened to WSAZ and said she was also hit by the speeding truck.
“Next thing you know, we hear a lot of screaming and we hear a sound that goes, bang, bang, bang. And before you know it, I’m looking to the left so quickly. I see a car coming towards me. He had his lights off,” she said.
“As he got closer, I said, ‘No, this can’t be a drunk driver because it would have been destroyed by now.’ He was honestly going about 70 miles per hour. He was trying to hit as many people as he could.”
A memorial for the victims of the New Year’s attack in New Orleans on January 1, 2025. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT VICTIMS OF THE NEW ORLEANS TERRORIST ATTACK
Two Israeli reservists were also injured and want to keep their names private. The men, both in their mid-to-late twenties, were given leave from the Hamas war and decided to travel to the United States as a tourist, an Israeli diplomat told Fox News Digital.
Two Officers of the New Orleans Police Department were also injured and are expected to make a full recovery, NOPD attorney Eric Hessler, a former NOPD officer, told Fox News Digital.
The two officers, whose identities have not been released, were on their way to an unrelated call early New Year’s morning when “the vehicle just flew past them and hit the crane,” Hessler said.
Military personnel walk down Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 2, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Street camera footage from the morning of the attack shows a group of officers standing near Bourbon Street and immediately running toward danger when a call came in about a suspicious vehicle incident.
Eight victims are still in the ICU of the University Medical Center (UMC), NOLA.com reports.
Elder told the newspaper that those who sought medical attention at the UMC had injuries ranging from severe head injuries and lacerated spleens to bullet abrasions and multiple broken bones.
Before his rampage in New Orleans, Jabbar posted several videos on Facebook showing his support for the Islamic State (ISIS)the FBI said.
Thirteen of the fourteen deceased victims of the attack have been identified: Nikyra Dedeaux, 18; Hubert Gauthreaux, 21; Kareem Bilal Badawi, 23; Billy DiMaio, 25; Matthew Tenedorio, 25; Drew Dauphin, 26; Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27; Nicole Perez, 28; Edward Pettifer, 31; Reggie Hunter, 37; Elliot Wilkinson, 40; Brandon Taylor, 43; and Terrence Kennedy, 63.
An image with the names of some of the victims of the terrorist attack in New Orleans. (Fox News)
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A New Orleans law firm representing one of the survivors of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack has said it is filing a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans and the… New Orleans Police Department for failing to establish “basic security measures” prior to the attack.
Maples & Connick, LLC, said the city’s negligence “paved the way for the tragic events that unfolded” early Wednesday, which were “both foreseeable and preventable.” The company said it will file the lawsuit on January 8.
The lawsuit could be the first of many filed by survivors and families of victims.
Fox News’ Alex Neitzberg, Landon Mion, Audrey Conklin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
