The person suspected of finishing up the New 12 months’s assault in New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had a checkered marital historical past punctuated by a number of divorces and monetary problem, in response to courtroom data reviewed by ABC Information.
The data additionally present that after his army service, Jabbar labored for 2 of the nation’s largest skilled providers corporations, Ernst & Younger and Deloitte, as he aimed to develop his personal fledgling actual property enterprise.
Jabbar has been recognized by the FBI because the suspect within the deadly attack on New 12 months’s revelers. Not less than 15 folks have been killed and over two dozen injured after a rented Ford pickup truck was pushed by a crowd on Bourbon Road at a excessive price of velocity early Wednesday, officers stated.
Jabbar, who police stated was killed throughout the assault, was a 42-year-old U.S.-born citizen and U.S. Military veteran from Texas, in response to the FBI.
As of 2022, whereas employed by Deloitte, paperwork present Jabbar was making near $125,000 a yr — a wage which was chipped away at by court-ordered funds for his youngsters from a previous marriage and weighed down by bank card and mortgage debt.
Undated photograph of Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
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In 2012 in Harris County, Texas, ex-wife Nakedra Charrllee Jabbar efficiently sued him for youngster help funds for the couple’s two ladies, who have been eight and three years previous on the time, in response to courtroom data.
4 years later, in 2016, Jabbar filed for divorce from one other spouse, Tiera Symone Jabbar, in Dekalb County, Georgia. The criticism type, stuffed out in handwriting, says the 2 married in Sept. 2013 however separated lower than two and a half years later in Feb. 2016. Below grounds for divorce, Jabbar checked the field on the shape that learn “our marriage is irretrievably damaged,” including that the pair “can now not stay collectively and there’s no hope that we are going to get again collectively.”
In July 2020, in Fort Bend County, Texas, Jabbar filed for divorce from spouse Shaneen Chantil Jabbar, whom he married in Nov. 2017, in response to courtroom filings. However the pair collectively sought to dismiss the go well with solely a month after it was filed, saying they “each now not need[d] to prosecute his/her respective fits in opposition to the opposite occasion” — a request that the courtroom granted.
Police investigators encompass a white truck that has been crashed into a piece carry within the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025.
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Nonetheless, when Jabbar once more filed for divorce a yr later, his then-wife responded with a counterclaim that sparked a prolonged battle of briefs indicating obvious unhealthy blood between them which will have at the very least partly stemmed from monetary difficulties.
In a single submitting, Shaneen’s lawyer accused Jabbar of “flagrant disregard” of his monetary duties to their family — alleging that in their marriage, Jabbar “was entrusted with the administration, management, and disposition of considerably all group property funds.”
Although Shaneen “trusted and believed” her husband “would faithfully execute” his administration, he violated their “fiduciary relationship,” his soon-to-be ex’s lawyer alleged.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar “has deliberately and in flagrant disregard of the duties as supervisor and trustee of the group funds mismanaged the group property, all in fraud of” his spouse’s monetary curiosity, she stated.
Shaneen’s filings additionally claimed that Jabbar withheld vital data from the courtroom about his retirement financial savings, with one file from July 2022 alleging Jabbar had failed to supply statements exhibiting his participation within the retirement plan at Ernst & Younger, the place the submitting signifies Jabbar labored previous to becoming a member of Deloitte.
The deceased suspect is seen within the New Orleans assault on Jan. 1, 2025.
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The acrimonious cut up from Shaneen additionally featured Jabbar breaking along with his personal laywer. Lawyer Robert Tsai — who represented Jabbar in his 2012 divorce — withdrew from the case in Sept. 2021, citing an incapability to “successfully talk” along with his shopper “in a way in line with good attorney-client relations.” Courtroom data point out Jabbar represented himself by the rest of the divorce proceedings.
In courtroom data Jabbar laid out a few of his monetary difficulties as he defined why he sought a divorce settlement that will have the couple promoting their home and splitting the proceeds. The property administration agency Jabbar based, Blue Meadow Properties, was failing to supply any income and was in reality shedding cash, per his submissions to the courtroom.
“Time is of the essence,” he wrote in an e-mail to his spouse’s lawyer on Jan 6, 2022. “l can’t afford the home fee. It’s late in extra of $27,000 and at risk of foreclosures if we delay settling the divorce. The house was not in default on the time we agreed to the non permanent orders. l misunderstood the phrases of the mortgage modification I had utilized for on the time.”
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, has been recognized because the suspect in an assault that killed at the very least 15 folks on Bourbon Road in New Orleans on New 12 months’s Day in 2025.
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Jabbar’s filings within the 2022 divorce from Shaneen present he was already answerable for paying $2,200 in youngster help per thirty days following his divorce from Nakedra. Finally, Jabbar was ordered to pay an extra $1,353 a month in youngster help to assist look after the son he shared with Shaneen, in response to the paperwork.
The courtroom ordered Deloitte to withhold the additional youngster help from his paychecks.
His ex-wife Shaneen bought the home, regardless of Jabbar’s asking that the asset be offered and the proceeds cut up, courtroom data present. She obtained major custody of their son, although Jabbar bought visitation rights, the data stated.
Throughout their divorce, courtroom data present each Jabbard and Shaneen took 4 hours’ instruction on parenting from the “Texas Cooperative Parenting Course,” and every obtained a certificates indicating that they had “efficiently accomplished” the course and have been “hereby dedicated to working with the opposite guardian in the very best curiosity of their youngster/youngsters.” Jabbar’s is dated Aug. 20, 2021. Shaneen’s is dated Aug. 30, 2021.
ABC Information tried on Wednesday to contact Nakedra, Tiera and Shaneen. Telephone calls or textual content messages weren’t returned.
