Suspect in the New Orleans Attack Is Identified: What We Know and How We Probably Cannot Expend Money Towards a New Reimbursement Program
He said that the business corporation he had formed, a real estate company, had lost more than $28,000 last year. He had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt in order to pay for lawyers and a second residence. He proposed in the email that he and his wife divide the proceeds from the sale of the house.
Records show that Mr. Jabbar was married twice, with his first marriage ending in 2012. In the midst of a second divorce in January 2022, Mr. Jabbar wrote an email to his wife’s lawyer in which he described financial problems. “I cannot afford the house payment,” he wrote.
The F.B.I. called the man and he explained that he had rented the vehicle but not been driving it. He said he had been asked by the federal agents not to discuss the matter publicly.
The vehicle used in the New Orleans attack, a Ford pickup, was registered to a Houston man who made it easier to rent vehicles on a peer-to-peer car sharing website. 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.
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Criminal records in Texas show that there was once a charge of theft and once of driving with an invalid license for Mr. Jabbar.
In a YouTube video from 2020 that appears to have been posted by Mr. Jabbar, he spoke positively about his skills in real estate. He claimed to have been born and raised in Texas and had served in the U.S. military.
The FBI was looking at an Islamic State flag and possibly an improvised explosive device that were found in the truck used in the attack.
Multiple officials say the man suspected of attacking New Orleans on New Year’s Day was a Texas born man named Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
There was no other threat to the area around the New Orleans area where 14 people were killed and dozens were injured in a truck attack on New Year’s Day.
“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.
Raia said investigators are combing through five electronic devices and there is nothing that indicates he was aided in this attack by anyone.
This is a change in the FBI’s initial assessment on Wednesday that it was likely Jabbar did not act alone and the agency was searching for information that could lead to additional suspects who may have aided in the attack.
Police have said that around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Jabbar veered around a police vehicle blocking the intersection of Canal and Bourbon streets, speeding onto the sidewalk before steering back onto Bourbon. He went down Bourbon Street, crossing Iberville Street and Bienville Street, and then crashed on the way to Conti Street. Jabbar then exited the pickup and fired at police officers, injuring two. The police said that the injured officers were in stable condition.
The City of Bourbon Street is Taking a Backseat from the Charges of a Las Vegas Cybertruck, as it’s being prosecuted
Bourbon Street was reopened to pedestrians on Thursday after it had been cleaned overnight. There are 14 yellow roses on the sidewalk near Canal Street as a makeshift memorial for the people who died in the speeding rampage.
With law enforcement assets that would typically be assigned to an event of this stature currently engaged in active investigations, the postponement allows for additional security resources to be put in place in order to maintain the standard of a major event in the Caesars Superdome.
When asked about security in the city before the game, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters that officials reinforced the area and deployed some additional types of assets.
“I don’t want the enemy to know what we have,” he said. “But I can tell you we’re in better shape than we were before,” Landry said. He also said there is “an unprecedented amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized” to finalize 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.
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Jabbar: A U.S. citizen discharged from the Army and posted on social media despite his actions in the troops and his home in Houston
The FBI states that the man who was a U.S. citizen was discharged from the Army. He also served as a Human Resource Specialist and Information Technology Specialist from March 2007 until January 2015 and then in the Army Reserve as an IT Specialist until July 2020, an Army spokesperson confirmed to NPR. In February 2009, he went to Afghanistan for about 11 months. He was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant.
The FBI completed the search of Jabbar’s home in Houston Thursday morning and said in a post on social media that there is “no threat to residents” in the area. The Texas Newsroom reported that a neighbor, who didn’t know Jabbar by name, described the suspect as quiet and their interactions as normal.