THE suspected domestic terrorist behind the New Orleans bloodbath grew increasingly erratic in the months before the deadly New Year’s Day attack.
Federal investigators are still piecing together a motive behind Shamsud Din Jabbar‘s harrowing act and what drove the US Army veteran to ram a pickup truck through a crowd of revelers alongside the renowned Bourbon Street.
Shamsud Din Jabbar was named as the driver of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon StreetEPA
A black flag with white lettering lies on the ground rolled up behind a pickup truck that Jabbar drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street on January 1AP:Associated Press
The harrowing terrorist attack left at least 15 dead, and three dozen others injuredAP:Associated Press
President Joe Biden said Jabbar was “inspired by” the Islamic State terrorist organization after the FBI confirmed the suspect had an ISIS flag attached to the back of the rented Ford pickup truck.
The sickening attack occurred at 3:15 am on January 1, hours after hundreds of people along the packed French Quarter district of New Orleans celebrated the New Year.
Investigators said Jabbar was able to infiltrate a police security point by mounting a sidewalk on Bourbon Street before ramming into a sea of revelers, killing at least 15 people and injuring 30 others.
Jabbar, 42, was killed in a shootout with New Orleans police.
Now, details are slowly emerging of the domestic terrorist who lived a quiet life in a trailer park in Houston, Texas.
Dwayne Marsh, who is married to Jabbar’s ex-wife, told The New York Times the suspect had been acting erratically in recent months, “being all crazy, cutting his hair” after converting to Islam.
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