An alleged member of the Islamic State group was arrested Tuesday by Iraqi authorities on charges of inciting the New Year’s Day truck-ramming incident on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 and injured 57 others.

The attack was committed by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas citizen, U.S. Army veteran and convert to radical Islam. He drove a rented Ford F-150 truck bearing an ISIS flag into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day. Jabbar was shot and killed by police after an exchange of gunfire.

Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said that an ISIS member “was arrested for inciting the January 2025 truck attack in the United States” after Iraq received a request from the Trump administration to assist in the investigation, Al Arabiya News, a state-owned Saudi Arabia media outlet reported.

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