Suspect in New Orleans Attack Is Identified: What We Know? — A Houston man’s email saying that he’d lost $28,000 in the previous year

He stated in his email that his business corporation lost $28,000 in the previous year. He said that he had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt to pay for lawyers and a second residence. He suggested in the email that he and his wife sell the house and divide the proceeds evenly.

Records show that Mr. Jabbar was married twice, with his first marriage ending in 2012. In the midst of a second divorce, Mr. Jabbar wrote an email to his wife’s lawyer detailing financial problems. He said that he couldn’t afford the house payment.

The man said the F.B.I. called him and he explained that he had not been driving the vehicle but had rented it out. He said he had been asked by the federal agents not to discuss the matter publicly.

The car used in the New Orleans attack was rented out on a peer to peer car sharing website, and it was registered to a Houston man. That man, who asked that his name not be made public, said that he and his family had preparing for an outing to the zoo on Wednesday morning when he saw the news of the attack and recognized his truck as the one involved.

Source: Suspect in New Orleans Attack Is Identified: What We Know

The New Orleans Attack on New Year’s Day: Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, Charged with Crime and Driving with an Invalid License, Revisited

There are records in Texas that show Mr. Jabbar had been charged with theft and driving with an invalid license.

In a 2020 video that appears to have been posted by Mr.Jabbar, he spoke about his skills in real estate. He said he had been born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, and had served in the U.S. military.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was examining an Islamic State flag that was found in the truck used in the attack, as well as a “potential” improvised explosive device discovered in the vehicle.

The man suspected in the New Orleans attack early on New Year’s Day was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old born in Texas, according to multiple officials.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver of the pickup truck who plowed into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens, acted alone and there is no other threat around the Bourbon Street area, the FBI said Thursday.

“We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack,” Christopher Raia, FBI deputy assistant director with the agency’s counterterrorism division, told reporters during a press conference.

There is no proof that he was aided in this attack by anyone because investigators are combing through five electronic devices, three cellphones and two laptops.

The FBI has changed its mind and says that it’s most likely that the attack was carried out by at least one person, and they’re looking for information that can lead to more people.

Police said that around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Jabbar sped around a police vehicle blocking the intersection of Canal and Bourbon streets and headed back onto Bourbon. He went down Bourbon Street for nearly three blocks and crossed Iberville Street and Bienville Street before crashing. Two officers were injured when Jabbar exited the pickup and started shooting. The injured officers are in stable condition, police said in a Wednesday morning news briefing.

On the investigation of the New Orleans-Cybertruck-Explosion-Las Vegas ‘Trust-In-Square’ attack

Bourbon Street, which has been closed as authorities investigate, has been cleaned overnight and was reopened to pedestrians on Thursday. Fourteen yellow roses have been placed on the sidewalk near Canal Street as a makeshift memorial for the people who died in the rampage.

The Sugar Bowl, a nationally televised game that is part of the college football playoffs, was slated to take place in New Orleans on Wednesday night but was postponed until Thursday afternoon.

When asked about security measures in the city ahead of the game, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters that officials “reinforced the area” and “deployed some additional types of assets.”

“I don’t like to give specifics because I don’t like to tell the enemy what we got,” he said. “But I can tell you we’re in better shape than we were before,” Landry said. He said there was a lot of law enforcement resources being utilized to finish the investigation.

Raia said said there is currently “no definitive link” between the attack in New Orleans and a Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas in front of the Trump Hotel on Wednesday, in which the suspect was killed inside the vehicle.

Source: FBI now says the suspect in the deadly New Orleans truck attack acted alone

Jabbar, an Honorably Discharged Human Resource Specialist in the U.S. Army and his Post on Social Media by the FBI

Jabbar, who was a U.S. citizen, was honorably discharged from the Army, according to the FBI. He served as an IT Specialist in the Army Reserve from July 2020 to January of next year, and then as a Human Resource Specialist from March 2007 until January 2015. In February 2009, Jabbar deployed to Afghanistan where he served for about 11 months. He went to work for the rank of staff sergeant.

There is no danger to the residents of the Houston area, according to a post on social media by the FBI. The Texas Newsroom reported that a neighbor had described the suspect as quiet and their interactions as normal.