Troubling secrets of New Orleans ISIS attacker Shamsud Din Jabba

The terrorist behind the attack on New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans is an army veteran, real estate agent and IT guru from Deloitte.

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, rammed a pickup truck flying an ISIS flag into a crowd on Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m., killing 15 people and injuring at least 25.

Dressed in military gear and carrying bombs in the white, electric Ford F-150, he mowed down pedestrians, then got out and shot more of them.

But just two years before his horrific massacre, Jabbar was living a normal American life: he worked hard, started businesses, and was married with a family.

Jabbar was born in Beamont, Texas, to Abdal and Herma Jabbar, who still lived in the city, and grew up with two brothers.

“I’ve been here all my life, with the exception of my travels for the military, where I worked for 10 years as an HR and IT specialist,” he said in a video promoting himself as a real estate agent in 2020.

The exact dates of Jabbar’s military service are not clear, but he received his associate degree in computer science from Central Texas College in 2008 to 2010.

He joined the U.S. Army Reserve as an information technology operations manager in 2015, the same year he began his undergraduate degree at Georgia State University.

Jabbar’s career took off after graduating in 2017, simultaneously pursuing real estate and cloud computing while living in Houston.

He founded Blue Meadow Properties in 2017, serving as property manager and president and promoting it as a veteran-owned company.

“I managed a service desk responsible for providing support services to thousands of soldiers,” he wrote on the company website.

“Today, every member of my company understands and applies these values ​​every day here at Blue Meadow Properties: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.”

Jabbar told potential customers in the video that his military experience was ‘where I learned the meaning of great service’

“What it means to be responsive and take everything seriously: dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s to make sure everything goes smoothly,” he said.

He said what set him apart was that he was a “fierce negotiator” who could “brilliantly market your property to ensure it sells as quickly as possible.”

Jabbar promised to “put all his energy into negotiating for you” to get the best possible deal.

At the same time, Jabbar worked for some of the largest consulting firms in the world, where he helped “several Fortune 100 companies guide them through major transformation projects.”

His LinkedIn page archives showed that he worked at Accenture as a cloud migration engineer from 2018 to 2019, at Ernst & Young in cloud computing from 2018 to 2021, and in data engineering and business development for Deloitte in 2022.

But suddenly it all seemed to unravel in 2022, when his work history abruptly stopped and he went through a messy divorce with his second wife.

“I can’t afford the house payment,” he wrote in a January 2022 email to his estranged wife Shaneen Jabbar’s attorney, Daryl Longworth.

“The payment exceeds $27,000 and is in danger of being foreclosed upon if we delay the settlement of the divorce.”

Jabbar was in a financial hole because his real estate business was losing money, losing $28,000 the year before, and he had $16,000 in credit card debt to pay for his own lawyer, he told Longworth.

He suggested that he and Shaneen sell the house and split the profits evenly, but instead he sold the house in Fresno, Texas, to her to cover his debts.

Shaneen blames his financial situation on “excessive cash withdrawals, gifts to lovers” and “unreasonable and unnecessary expenses.”

A later court document, when the case was finally resolved in August 2022, revealed that he earned $120,000 a year in his job at Deloitte.

Jabbar first filed for divorce in July 2020 and Judge David Perwin deemed it prudent to order the couple to remain apart while the case was ongoing.

The standard terms prohibit them from “threatening the other party or a child of either party with imminent bodily harm.”

They also could not remove the child from school, hide it, or place it outside the jurisdiction.

Shanneen, who reverted to her maiden name McDaniel after the divorce, wasn’t his only ex-wife, as he was married two, possibly three times.

A former ex-wife, Nakedra Ball, whom he divorced in 2012, remarried Dwayne Marsh – revealing the final piece of the puzzle.

Marsh told the New York Times that Jabbar only began converting to Islam in the past year or so, as if he was “completely crazy.”

Little is known about Jabbar’s activities until his early morning atrocity beginning in 2025.