BEAUMONT The reasons for the claimed New Orleans attacker’s radicalization are still being investigated by investigators. Even his own family members are still unable to identify the cause.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a Houston man, is accused of driving a vehicle into a throng on New Orleans Bourbon Street early on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injured many more. His youngest brother is Abdur Rahim Jabbar IV, 24, of Beaumont. Following a violent gunfight, he was later deceased by police.
Abdur claims that last summer was the last time he saw his brother.
“He was at ease. Abdur described him as “loving, funny, smart, compassionate, and charismatic.” “I looked up to him.”
Abdur claimed that it was many hours later when he first learned about his brother’s purported involvement in the attack in New Orleans.
“I had just got off work,” he stated, “I was taking a nap because I worked the night shift, and my aunt called me and told me what she had been seeing in the news and that they were confirming that it was my brother and that she didn’t have the heart to tell my dad at the time, so she told me first.”
Early on New Year’s Day, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, is accused of smashing a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Jabbar’s mobile home, which was situated in a small, mostly Muslim neighborhood just north of Houston, was raided by FBI officials later that day.
Authorities declared that the local community was not in danger by Thursday morning. However, on Friday, federal officers went back to Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s house and carried out a second search.
Federal officers discovered precursor chemicals in the house, according to representatives of the FBI New Orleans field office, the primary agency in the current investigation.
According to Abdur Rahim Jabbar, he is unsure of the circumstances surrounding his brother’s declaration of support for ISIS.
“Despite his recent actions, this wasn’t a depiction of who he was as a person, as a human being, as a father, a son, or a brother, and this was in no way a representation of what it truly meant to be a Muslim,” he stated.
According to Abdur, the relatives of the victims are in his and his family’s thoughts and prayers, but he also hopes that people would realize that they too lost a loved one.
From 2007 to 2015, Shamsud-Din Jabbar worked for the U.S. Army as an IT specialist and human resource specialist. After then, he was in the U.S. Army Reserve until 2020 as an IT expert. Jabbar served in Afghanistan from 2009 until 2010. After that, he worked for a number of real estate firms and Deloitte. In 2023, Blue Meadow Properties, his most recent real estate endeavor, was reported as dormant.
According to court documents, Jabbar’s financial condition reportedly deteriorated in 2022 while he was divorcing his wife. While working with Deloitte, he worked on business growth projects. According to the Associated Press, he accrued credit card debt and asked for quick action to complete the divorce.
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