Missouri man’s explosives tutorial helped New Orleans terrorist plan NYE attack, feds say

A Missouri antheral accused of turning societal media into a virtual bomb-making schoolroom is present facing national charges aft investigators accidental his online tutorials were utilized by the violent down the deadly New Year’s Day rampage connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans.

Jordan Derrick, 40, of Sweet Springs, Missouri, was arrested by the FBI Tuesday aft prosecutors accused him of posting elaborate online videos showing followers precisely however to manufacture explosives, detonators and improvised explosive devices utilizing volatile chemic compounds.

According to a recently unsealed transgression complaint, Derrick spent months uploading graphic, step-by-step demonstrations showing viewers however to make explosive materials including TNT, PETN, RDX and different highly unsafe compounds commonly associated with military-grade explosives and panic attacks.

Investigators allege Derrick began posting the contented connected aggregate societal media platforms arsenic aboriginal arsenic September 2023, efficaciously creating an online "how-to" usher for homemade bombs.

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The FBI released a caller representation of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the New Orleans panic fishy from Texas, on with details of his net hunt history. (FBI)

The ailment alleges Derrick demonstrated however to manufacture detonators and volatile explosive compounds, including nickel aminoguanidine perchlorate, ethylene glycol dinitrate, HMTD, hexamine dinitrate and ammonium nitrate mixtures susceptible of causing catastrophic damage.

Federal authorities accidental the videos yet reached Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the ISIS-inspired violent liable for the deadly Bourbon Street onslaught successful New Orleans connected Jan. 1, 2025.

According to investigators, Jabbar downloaded Derrick’s publically disposable bomb-making videos and utilized the tutorials to conception improvised explosive devices accordant with the methods shown online.

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New Orleans constabulary face violent Shamsud-Din Jabbar connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans connected Jan. 1, 2025. (New Orleans Police Department)

The FBI antecedently said Jabbar killed 14 radical and injured dozens much aft driving a rented Ford F-150 done packed New Year’s crowds successful the French Quarter during the aboriginal greeting hours of Jan. 1 earlier opening occurrence connected constabulary officers, who changeable and killed him astatine the scene.

Authorities aboriginal recovered improvised explosive devices adjacent Bourbon Street that failed to detonate and were yet rendered harmless by weaponry squads — a improvement prosecutors present accidental whitethorn person prevented an adjacent deadlier mass-casualty attack.

The FBI has said Jabbar became progressively radicalized online successful 2024 and researched ISIS propaganda, erstwhile conveyance attacks and crowded New Orleans events successful the months starring up to the massacre.

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Investigators besides said Jabbar traveled from Houston to New Orleans weeks earlier the attack, wherever helium scoped retired the French Quarter, researched balcony entree points and utilized Meta astute glasses to secretly grounds video portion biking done Bourbon Street.

Hours earlier carrying retired the Bourbon Street massacre, investigators accidental Jabbar researched the deadly Christmas marketplace onslaught successful Germany.

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But prosecutors present judge Derrick’s alleged online explosives empire reached acold beyond New Orleans.

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Federal investigators accidental they besides linked Derrick’s bomb-making tutorials to a abstracted detonation astatine a location successful Odessa, Missouri, earlier this month.

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According to the transgression complaint, investigators responding to the May 4 blast discovered suspected explosive components wrong the residence. The homeowner allegedly told authorities helium learned however to physique explosive devices by watching online tutorial videos connected to Derrick’s societal media accounts.

That detonation remains nether investigation.

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Derrick is charged with manufacturing explosive materials without a license, unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive instrumentality and distributing accusation related to the manufacture of explosives.

If convicted, Derrick could look up to 20 years successful national situation connected the complaint of distributing accusation related to manufacturing explosives, on with 2 further charges carrying maximum penalties of 10 years each. Federal inmates are not eligible for parole.

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The FBI is starring the probe alongside national prosecutors and the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

Derrick has not yet entered a plea.