The terrorist who killed 15 people and injured dozens in the New Orleans attack lived in a run-down trailer park where he raised sheep, chickens and goats after leaving the army, it has been revealed.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen born and raised in Texas, drove an electric vehicle from Houston to Louisiana to carry out the deadly attack that killed 15 people and injured at least 35.
Jabbar, once an IT specialist with an established career in the military, quickly fell into disrepair and was twice divorced and living in a seedy trailer park in Houston, Texas, where he kept farm animals, according to the New York Post.
He has also been divorced twice and each separation left him in apparent financial ruin.
According to court records, his first wife sued him for child support payments in 2012.
And in 2022, in the midst of his second divorce, he said in an email to his ex-wife’s attorney that he had racked up more than $16,000 in credit card debt to pay for court costs and expenses for a second home.
“I can’t afford the house payment,” he wrote, adding that his real estate business suffered losses of more than $28,000 the previous year.
His first wife, Nakedra Jabbar, has since remarried, and she and her new husband were cooperating with investigators, her husband’s father, Nelson Marsh Sr., told the New York Post.
Jabbar, once an IT specialist with an established career in the military, quickly fell apart and was twice divorced and living in a seedy trailer park in Houston, Texas, where he kept farm animals (pictured) .
A drone view shows Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Harris County law enforcement officials surrounding a residence in an armored vehicle in north Houston, Texas, US, on January 1, 2025.
The terrorist lived in Houston, Texas.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen, drove a rented truck brandishing an ISIS flag into the crowd on Bourbon Street Wednesday morning, killing at least 15 people.
Other legal problems came in the form of arrests: one in Texas for robbery in 2002 and another in 2005 for driving without a license.
He was on active duty from Mark 2007 to January 2015, before becoming a reservist until July 2020, according to military records reviewed by the New York Post.
The terrorist was deployed in Afghanistan between February 2009 and January 2010, leaving the service as a sergeant major.
The year he left the military, he posted a video on YouTube to promote his real estate business.
In it, a clean-shaven Jabbar described himself as a Dependable and trustworthy native Texan who spent a decade in the military, which taught him “the meaning of great service.”
Jabbar traveled to Egypt for 10 days last year, officials told the Post.
His neighbors told the New York Post that they knew little about him.
a man, Francois Venegas said Jabbar was a “simple person” who kept to himself, although they occasionally exchanged words on the street.
In a social media post, the FBI stated that the activity in north Houston is “related to this morning’s attack in New Orleans” and asked residents to avoid the area.
Authorities confirmed that Jabbar had placed an ISIS flag on the truck he used to push his way through the crowd.
‘(He was) pretty calm… Just walking around, (saying) ‘hello,’ ‘hello,’ and that was it,” Venegas said.
Jabbar’s truck turned onto Bourbon Street, maneuvered past a NOLA Police Department vehicle and then crashed into a crowd of pedestrians.
After mowing down the revelers, he got out of the car and started shooting, before the police shot him. The ordeal is being investigated as a terrorist attack.
The electric truck is a particularly lethal weapon with its great height and weight and its ability to go from zero to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.
New Orleans police said mechanical barricades set up at the intersection were malfunctioning and placed other barriers and police cars on parts of Bourbon Street for the holiday.
‘We knew these were malfunctioning. “So we had a plan, but the terrorist thwarted it,” police superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said.
‘This particular terrorist drove onto the sidewalk and avoided the tough target. “We had a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there and they still moved.”
Authorities confirmed that Jabbar had placed an ISIS flag on the truck he used to push his way through the crowd.
“An ISIS flag was located on the vehicle and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s possible associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,” the FBI said.