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The FBI confirmed that the man accused of driving a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day was inspired by ISIS. The Bourbon Street attack is not the first ISIS-inspired attack to occur in the United States. Since 2006, there have been three other mass killing attacks traced back to ISIS inspiration, according to an analysis by the Hearst Television Data Team on the dataset Mass Killings in America, 2006 - present by the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University. The dataset tracks all U.S. homicides since 2006 involving four or more people killed over a 24-hour period regardless of weapon, location, victim-offender relationship or motive. According to law enforcement officials, the suspect drove to New Orleans on Dec. 31 from Houston, Texas and intentionally drove his pickup truck into a crowd of people before exchanging gunfire with police in the early morning hours of New Year's Day. The FBI identified the suspect as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran. Officials revealed Jabbar made a Facebook post supporting ISIS, had an ISIS flag in his vehicle, a long-range rifle and an ice chest containing pipe bombs. On Thursday, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia, from the Counterterrorism Division, said, "What happened here in New Orleans was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act." Raia also said there are no indications that anyone else was involved in this attack other than Jabbar. 2017 Lower Manhattan car attack On Oct. 31, 2017, officials responded to an attack where a driver drove a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in New York City. The attack resulted in the deaths of eight people and injured 11 others before police officers shot and arrested 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov. Saipov exited the vehicle and was reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar," and he was found to possess an ISIS flag during the incident, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. 2016 Pulse nightclub shootingAround 2 a.m. on June 12, 2016, gunshots were heard inside Orlando's Pulse nightclub. Shortly after the shooting began, 29-year-old Omar Mateen called 911, pledging his allegiance to ISIS. After a three-hour standoff, Orlando police officers fatally shot Mateen. The attack resulted in the deaths of 49 people and injuries to 53 others. The FBI later classified the shooting as a terrorist attack. 2015 San Bernardino attack Radicalized married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack at a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party on Dec. 2, 2015.The attack resulted in the deaths of 14 civilians and injured 22 others. The Department of Homeland Security reported that the couple was dressed in tactical gear and armed with .223 assault rifles and semiautomatic handguns. Later that day, a police tip led to a shootout that resulted in the couple's deaths.Who is ISIS? According to the National Counterterrorism Center, ISIS is "a Salafi-jihadist group that has conducted and inspired terrorist attacks worldwide." ISIS began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida in 2014. ISIS is also referred to as IS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. When ISIS separated from al-Qaida, the group declared itself a caliphate. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS took control of territories in Iraq and Syria. In 2019, an international coalition expelled ISIS from its last stronghold in Syria, scattering and weakening the organization. Other incidentsIn the dataset, five incidents are labeled as "terrorism." Four of these were inspired by ISIS, according to law enforcement investigations.However, the 2015 Chattanooga shooting is not included on the map, as then FBI Director James Comey stated it was unclear which terrorist group inspired the perpetrator."There is no doubt that the Chattanooga killer was inspired, motivated by foreign terrorist organization propaganda," Comey said, in a news conference on Dec. 16, 2015.Additionally, the Nov. 5, 2009, Fort Hood shooting was classified as workplace violence by the Department of Defense. A 2011 Senate investigation determined that Nidal Malik Hasan was motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs. However, he was not inspired by ISIS, as the organization did not exist at that time.PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=