The terrorist who killed at least 10 people when he plowed his truck down crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans was an American-born military veteran who was living in a run-down trailer park where he kept sheep and goats in the yard — just blocks away from the local mosque.
Authorities say Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, from Houston, had an ISIS flag strapped to the rented Ford F-150 Lightning EV truck he used to carry out an act of premeditated terror on New Year’s Day.
In a YouTube video he posted in 2020 for his real estate business, a clean-cut Jabbar described himself as a reliable, trustworthy native Texan who spent 10 years in the military, which taught him “the meaning of great service.”
But later, 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.
Francois Venegas described Jabbar as a “simple person” who kept to himself, though they would occasionally exchange words on the street.
“[He was] pretty quiet…Just walking, [he would say] ‘hello,’ ‘hola,’ and that was it,” Venegas said.
Jabbar had been arrested twice: Once in Katy, Texas, for theft in 2002, court records show, and again three years later for driving without a valid license, the New York Times reported.
He had also been divorced twice, and the failed marriages apparently left him in financial ruin.
Jabbar’s first wife sued him for child support payments in 2012, court records show.
Amid his second divorce in 2022, he said he had racked up more than $16,000 in credit card debt paying court fees and expenses for a second home, according to an email to his ex-wife’s lawyer viewed by the Times.
“I cannot afford the house payment,” he wrote.
He added that his real estate business suffered more than $28,000 in losses the previous year.
His first wife, Nakedra Jabbar, has since remarried, and she and her new husband were cooperating with investigators, her husband’s father, Nelson Marsh Sr., told the New York Post.
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