New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s eerie emails give clues as to why he cracked up

The army veteran who rammed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s celebrants in New Orleans had gone through a contentious divorce and an economic crisis before turning to terror.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, flew an ISIS flag as he ran through crowds in the iconic French Quarter, killing 15 people and wounding dozens with a rented truck packed with explosives. He died during a shootout with police.

Jabbar appeared to crack after his second divorce in 2020, when his then-wife, Shaneen Chanti McDaniel, obtained a restraining order against him.

‘Time is of the essence. I can’t afford the house payment. The payment amounts to over $27,000 and is at risk of being foreclosed upon if we delay the settlement of the divorce,” Jabbar wrote in a 2022 email to his then-wife’s attorney.

Jabbar claimed he was broke at the time and told the court he had a net monthly income of about $7,500, but monthly expenses were about $8,960. He also said the real estate company he founded had lost more than $28,000 in the past year and he had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt.

On December 1, Jabbar posted an out-of-office notice with Deloitte, saying he would return to work on January 1, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

“Please expect a delay in response during this time,” he wrote.

On his internal profile page at the company, he wrote about his hobbies: hunting and praying, sharing quotes from the Quran.

Jabbar said he couldn’t pay his mortgage while divorcing his second wife Shaneen McDaniel (pictured)

Jabbar was dishonorably charged by the Army, where he served as a human resources and information technology specialist and spent 11 months in Afghanistan.

“Indeed, the righteous will drink from a cup whose mixture is Kafur, a spring from which the servants of Allah will drink,” reads an excerpt on his profile. “They will pour it out with force. They fulfill vows and fear a Day when evil will be widespread.’

Jabbar had reportedly become increasingly devout in his Muslim religion in recent years

The Texas native had successfully climbed the corporate ladder after being dishonorably charged by the Army, where he served as a human resources and information technology specialist and spent 11 months in Afghanistan.

He then went on to study computer information systems at Georgia State University, had a job at IT company Accenture and tried his hand at real estate before returning to Texas in 2018, where he started a job as a cloud consulting manager for Ernst & Young, an accounting firm. company.

Jabbar then went to work as ‘senior solutions specialist’ at Deloitte from 2021 until at least last fall. He earned the equivalent of nearly $125,000 a year, according to a pay stub shown in court.

He was already divorced in 2012, with that ex-wife, Nakedra Charlee Marsh, receiving majority custody of their two children, who are now 20 and 15 years old.

According to some reports, Jabbar converted to Islam at some point in recent years and became increasingly devout.

Jabbar used the electric vehicle, which had an ISIS flag attached, to kill at least 15 people in New Orleans

Suspect Jabbar is said to have made a series of videos that are being reviewed by police

Marsh’s current husband Dwayne Marsh shared The New York Times Jabbar had been behaving erratically in recent months, “he was going crazy and cutting his hair.” Marsh said that as a result, he and his wife stopped allowing Jabbar’s two daughters to spend time with him.

However, Jabbar’s brother Abdur Jabbar, 24, told the newspaper he believed Jabbar “had been Muslim most of his life.”

In videos posted to his Facebook account hours before the attack, he addressed his family while “pledging allegiance to ISIS.”

“We are shocked to learn today of reports that the person identified as the suspect had some connection to our company. The said individual has held a staff-level position since being hired in 2021,” Deloitte said in a statement.

“Like everyone else, we are outraged by this shameful and senseless act of violence and are doing everything we can to assist the authorities in their investigation.”

President Joe Biden said Wednesday evening that the FBI has found videos that Jabbar posted on social media hours before the attack, in which he said he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressed a desire to kill.

The frenzy turned festive Bourbon Street into a macabre chaos of mutilated victims, bloodied bodies and pedestrians seeking safety in nightclubs and restaurants. In addition to the deaths, dozens of people were injured. A college football playoff game at the nearby Superdome was postponed until Thursday.