Shamsud-Din Jabbar 42, was born and raised in Dallas but appears to have become radicalized by Islamic fanatics in the months before his massacre on New Year’s Eve.
At a press conference New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said Jabbar drove around a police car and onto the pavement to access Bourbon St, one of the busiest streets in the city.
Jabbar was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did”, the Supt. added.
Superintendent of New Orleans Police Anne Kirkpatrick speaks to the media during a press conference on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo: Chris Graythen/ Getty Images)According to his now-deleted LinkedIn profile, he served in human resources and IT in the US Army and Army Reserves, as well as the US Army Corps of engineers, for a decade.
More recently Jabbar worked as a real estate agent and is understood to have set up a property company with his mother called the Midas Group.
Among the qualities of such a person is that they “build routines” and “go all in”.
He says: “I have been here all my life with the exception of traveling for the military where I spent 10 years where I learned the meaning of great service and what it means to be responsive and take everything seriously, dotting eyes and crossing the ts to make sure they don’t go off without a hitch”.
“I’m going to take every ounce of energy putting it into negotiating for you to get the best deal you can possibly get”, he says.
A black flag with white lettering lies on the ground rolled up behind a pickup truck that a man drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Court documents seen by the The i Paper show that he has gone through a series of court battles with his ex-wife Nakedra over their two daughters.
At the time Jabbar had an income of $3,115 a month and he was ordered to arrange health insurance for both the girls.
At the time he gave his address at Fort Bragg, the military base in North Carolina.
There was another adjustment in 2018 when his income had reached $5,983 per month and he was ordered to pay $1,091 per month.
Jabbar has also been involved in petty crime: in 2002 he was arrested for theft and released under community supervision. He has also been arrested for driving with a suspended license.
He also worked at the Shoebox Project at United Way of Greater Atlanta, a nonprofit which helps children, and a local church.
The FBI is now trying to work out what could have led him to radicalisation and sympathies for ISIS.
FBI investigators arrive at the scene where the white Ford F-150 pickup truck that crashed into a work lift (Photo by Matthew HINTON / AFP)A photo from the scene shows him wearing combat fatigues and lying topless on Bourbon St, with blood pouring from wounds sustained during a shootout with police.
The devices contained coils and nails, sources told ABC News, in a chilling throwback to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 where two terrorists put pressure cookers filled with shrapnel at the finish line.
With the hunt on for the Jabbar’s co-conspirators, the FBI will be wanting to avoid this one ending the same way as Boston – where the suspects engaged in a shootout with police through residential streets.
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