New Orleans attack updates: Suspect identified as Army veteran, did not act alone

ABC News via Yahoo ^ | January 1st, 2025 | AARON KATERSKY, VICTORIA ARANCIO, KEVIN SHALVEY, PIERRE THOMAS, JOSH MARGOLIN and LUKE BARR

[Mariner]

A suspect who was "hell-bent" on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at a high rate of speed, leaving at least 15 dead and injuring dozens of others early Wednesday, city and federal officials said.

After mowing down numerous people over a three-block stretch on the famed thoroughfare while firing shots into the crowd, the suspect -- identified by sources as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42 -- allegedly got out of the truck wielding an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told ABC News. Officers returned fire, killing Jabbar, a U.S.-born citizen from Texas, sources said. At least two police officers were shot and wounded, authorities said.

Althea Duncan, assistant special agent in charge of FBI New Orleans field office, said investigators do not believe Jabbar acted alone.

[Mariner]

Natural born US Citizen, Army Vet.

Homegrown ISIS.

[grey_whiskers]

I guess some rayciss white male retarded MAGAs helped him?

[MinorityRepublican]

Natural born US Citizen, Army Vet.

Did they say which ethnicity?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Natural born US Citizen, Army Vet. Homegrown ISIS.

Sounds like a "white supremacist" to me, just like FJB and the FBI said. 🤡

[Still a Patriot]

do you really need that given the name?

[rxsid]

His parents are/were U.S. citizens when he was born here?

[Mariner]

pic at this link:

https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/us-news/shamsud-din-jabbar-identified-as-killer-driver-who-mowed-down-dozens-of-new-years-revelers-in-new-orleans/

[MinorityRepublican]

do you really need that given the name?

He could be a typical American, became a radicalized Muslim in prison. We don't know his story.

[lee martell]

What was his original name?
Something like ‘Darnell Jenkins’?

[deport]

De culprit.

Shamsud Din Jabbar
Texas Dept. of Public Safety

[Texas Eagle]

A U.S. born citizen Army veteran from Texas!

I knew it!

[rxsid]

[MinorityRepublican]

Maybe he converted to Islam after the divorce?

[Mouton]

Find out the mosque he attended and load it up with VX on Friday. Pull it out by the roots like with any weed.

[bray]

Wray has sent his best Whitewash team.

[Albion Wilde]

What was his original name? Something like ‘Darnell Jenkins’?

My first thought as well. "Bill Johnson?"

[bobcat62]

If the perp was known to the FBI, you could say the perp was acting with the assistance of the FBI.

[gundog]

I’ve read Pakistani.

[rxsid]

"...Jabbar lived in a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants.

Geese, chickens, and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar’s yard when The Post visited hours after the attack.

One neighbor told The Post she spoke only Urdu, Pakistan’s national language.

The neighborhood is also within walking distance of the local mosque, Masjid Bilal — where no one answered the telephone on Wednesday.

Law enforcement sources told The Post that they found videos Jabbar made where he referenced the Quran — Islam’s holy text.

By mid-afternoon the feds swooped in — kicking The Post and other journalists out of the area and cordoning it off.

His neighbors seemed to know little about him."

https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/us-news/inside-shamsud-din-jabbar-jabbars-squalid-home-where-sheep-and-goats-roam/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

[DAC21]

Someone needs to go to the range. All those shots are wide right from the perps head. Hopefully no one was ran over after those shots were fired by police.