Terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s truck attack in New Orleans earlier this week killed 14 innocent revelers and injured more than 30 others, many whose lives were changed forever.
The youngest deceased victim was 18, and the oldest 63. Most of those killed were in their 20s and came from states such as Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York and New Jersey, and Great Britain.
Of the more than 30 injured people, 16 are still hospitalized, half in intensive care units as of Friday.
Jeremi Senski of Pennsylvania told NBC News he was in a wheelchair when he was hit. (Heaven Sensky)
dr. Jeffrey Elder of the University of New Orleans Medical Center 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.
Jeremy Sensky51, of Pennsylvania, told NBC News he was in a wheelchair when he was hit.
Sensky said he has been paralyzed since 1999 and that his “wheelchair was completely smashed” with pieces strewn about.
He said both of his legs were broken, but he said he was lucky to be alive. He recalled lying on the ground and seeing parts of his wheelchair beside him.
Alabama resident Alexis Scott-Windham 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 create 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 noise going bang, bang, bang. And the next thing you know, I look to my left so fast. I see a car coming towards me. It had its lights off,” she said.
“When he got closer, I said, ‘No, this can’t be a drunk driver because he would have crashed by now.’ Honestly, he was going about 70 miles an hour. He was trying to hit as many people as possible.”
Memorial to the victims of the attacks in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2025. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK IN NEW ORLEANS
Two Israeli reservists were also injured and their names remain confidential. The men, both in their mid to late 20s, were approved exit from the war with Hamas and decided to travel to the United States as tourists, an Israeli diplomat told Fox News Digital.
Two New Orleans PD officers were also injured and are both 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 “a vehicle just flew past them and hit the crane,” Hessler said.
Military personnel walk down Bourbon Street on January 2, 2025 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Street camera video from the morning of the attack shows a group of officers standing near Bourbon Street immediately running toward danger when a call came in about a suspicious vehicle incident.
Eight victims are still in intensive care at University Medical Center (UMC), NOLA.com reported.
Elder said those who sought medical attention at UMC had injuries ranging from severe head injuries and a lacerated spleen to bullet wounds and multiple broken bones.
Before his rampage in New Orleans, Jabbar posted several videos on Facebook expressing his support for the Islamic State (ISIS)the FBI said.
13 of the 14 deceased victims of the attack have been identified: Nikyra Dedeaux, 18; Hubert Gauthreaux, 21; Kareem Bilal Badawi, 23; Billy DiMaio, 25; Matej 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.
A graphic showing 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 said it is filing a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans and New Orleans Police Department for failing to establish “basic security precautions” before the attack.
Maples & Connick, LLC, said the city’s “negligence paved the way for the tragic events that unfolded” early Wednesday, which it said “were foreseeable and preventable.” The company said it would file a lawsuit on January 8.
The lawsuit could be the first of many filed by families of survivors and victims.
Fox News’ Alex Neitzberg, Landon Mion, Audrey Conklin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
