BEAUMONT – Investigators are nonetheless trying into what may need led the alleged New Orleans attacker down the trail of radicalization. The trigger stays a thriller even to members of his circle of relatives.
Abdur Rahim Jabbar IV, 24, of Beaumont, is the youngest brother of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a Houston man who early Wednesday is alleged to have pushed a truck right into a crowd on New Orleans’ Bourbon Avenue, killing not less than 14 individuals whereas injuring dozens of others. He was subsequently killed by police throughout a bloody change of gunfire.
Abdur says the final time he noticed his brother was final summer time.
“He was calm. He was loving, humorous, sensible, compassionate, charismatic,” Abdur stated. “I appeared as much as him.”
Abdur stated the primary phrase he’d obtained of his brother’s alleged involvement within the New Orleans assault was a number of hours afterward.
“I had simply bought off work,” he stated, “I used to be taking a nap as a result of I labored the night time shift, and my aunt referred to as me and advised me what she had been seeing within the information and that they had been confirming that it was my brother and that she did not have the guts to inform my dad on the time, so she advised me first.”
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, allegedly rammed a pickup truck right into a crowd on New Orleans’ Bourbon Avenue within the early hours of New Yr’s Day. Later that day, FBI brokers raided Jabbar’s cellular dwelling situated inside a small, predominately Muslim neighborhood simply north of Houston.
By Thursday morning, authorities introduced that there was no risk to the encompassing neighborhood. However federal brokers returned to Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s dwelling on Friday and performed a second search.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar
In keeping with officers on the FBI New Orleans subject workplace, the lead company within the ongoing investigation, federal brokers discovered “precursor chemical substances” throughout the dwelling.
Abdur Rahim Jabbar says he has no concept what might have led his brother to profess help for ISIS.
“Regardless of his latest actions, this wasn’t an outline of who he was as an individual, as a human being, as a father, a son, or a brother, and this was on no account a illustration of what it actually meant to be a Muslim,” he stated.
Abdur says his and his household’s hearts and prayers exit to the victims’ households, however he hopes individuals will perceive they too misplaced a cherished one.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar served as a human useful resource specialist and an IT specialist within the U.S. Military from 2007 till 2015. He then served as an IT specialist within the U.S. Military Reserve till 2020. From 2009 to 2010, Jabbar was deployed to Afghanistan. He subsequently labored for Deloitte and for varied realty corporations. His newest realty enterprise, Blue Meadow Properties, was listed as inactive in 2023.
Jabbar’s monetary state of affairs allegedly declined round 2022 throughout divorce proceedings from his spouse, in response to court docket data. He did enterprise growth work throughout his employment with Deloitte. He accrued bank card debt and requested swift motion to finalize the divorce, the Related Press reported.
