HOUSTON — The terrorist who killed not less than 10 individuals when he crashed his truck on crowded Bourbon Road in New Orleans was an American-born army veteran who lived in a rundown trailer park the place he raised sheep and goats within the yard — only a a number of blocks from the native mosque.
Authorities say Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, of Houston, had an ISIS flag hooked up to the rented Ford F-150 Lightning EV truck he used to commit an act of premeditated terror on New 12 months’s Day.
In a YouTube video he posted in 2020. about his actual property enterprise, the clean-cut Jabbar describes himself as a dependable, reliable native Texan who spent 10 years within the army, which taught him “the that means of nice service.”
However Jabbar later lived in a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston, house to principally Muslim immigrants.
Geese, chickens and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar’s yard when The Submit visited hours after the assault.
One neighbor advised The Submit that she solely speaks Urdu, the nationwide language of Pakistan.
The neighborhood can also be inside strolling distance of the native mosque, Masjid Bilal, the place nobody answered the telephone Wednesday.
Legislation enforcement sources advised The Submit that they found movies Jabbar had made during which he referred to the Koran, Islam’s holy textual content.
By mid-afternoon, the feds swooped in — kicked The Submit and different journalists out of the realm and cordoned it off.
His neighbors appeared to know little about him.
Francois Venegas describes Jabbar as a “easy man” who retains to himself, though they generally trade phrases on the road.
“[He was] fairly quiet…simply strolling [he would say] ‘hello,’ ‘hello,’ and that was it,” Venegas mentioned.
Jabbar was arrested twice: as soon as in Katy, Texas, for theft in 2002, in line with court docket data, and once more three years later for driving with out a legitimate license. reports the New York Times.
He had additionally been divorced twice and failed marriages apparently left him in monetary spoil.
Jabbar’s first spouse sued him over youngster assist funds in 2012, court docket data present.
Throughout his second divorce in 2022. he mentioned he had racked up greater than $16,000 in bank card debt paying court docket charges and bills for a second house, in line with an e mail to his ex-wife’s lawyer reviewed by the Occasions.
“I can not afford the home cost,” he wrote.
He added that his actual property enterprise had suffered greater than $28,000 in losses within the earlier yr.
His first spouse, Nakedra Jabbar, has since remarried, and he or she and her new husband have cooperated with investigators, her husband’s father, Nelson Marsh Sr., advised the New York Submit.
