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According to an ABC News report, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the US Army vet who drove a car into a Bourbon Street crowd in New Orleans, was divorced three times and financially struggling before carrying out the deadly act of terror.
From ABC News:
As of 2022, while employed by Deloitte, documents show Jabbar was making close to $125,000 a year — a salary which was chipped away at by court-ordered payments for his children from a past marriage and weighed down by credit card and mortgage debt.
In 2012 in Harris County, Texas, ex-wife Nakedra Charrlle Jabbar successfully sued him for child support payments for the couple’s two girls, who were eight and three years old at the time, according to court records.
Four years later, in 2016, Jabbar filed for divorce from another wife, Tiera Symone Jabbar, in Dekalb County, Georgia. The complaint form, filled out in handwriting, says the two married in Sept. 2013 but separated less than two and a half years later in Feb. 2016. Under grounds for divorce, Jabbar checked the box on the form that read “our marriage is irretrievably broken,” adding that the pair “can no longer live together and there is no hope that we will get back together.”
In July 2020, in Fort Bend County, Texas, Jabbar filed for divorce from wife Shaneen Chantil Jabbar, whom he married in Nov. 2017, according to court filings. But the pair jointly sought to dismiss the suit only a month after it was filed, saying they “both no longer desire[d] to prosecute his/her respective suits against the other party” — a request that the court granted.
Jabbar drove a truck with an ISIS flag attached into a crowd of people on New Year’s Eve, killing 14 and wounding others. He was shot dead by police after exiting the vehicle and opening fire. The FBI is looking into how Jabbar was radicalized.
“This investigation is only a little more than 24 hours old, and we have no indication at this point that anyone else was involved in this attack other than Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar,” FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia from the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters said on Thursday. “The FBI is surging people and assets to this area from across the region and across the nation. Special agents in field offices across the country are assisting with potential aspects of this investigation and following up on leads. Additional teams of special agents, professional staff, and victim specialists continue to arrive to provide more investigative power and assistance to the victims and their families.”
“Let us be very clear—what happened here in New Orleans was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act,” he added.
More over at The New York Post:
Shamsud-Din Jabbar was divorced three times, financially struggling before deadly New Orleans attack https://t.co/29igRQ3xnE pic.twitter.com/cJHKXIwwe9
— New York Post (@nypost) January 3, 2025