The decorated US Army veteran who mowed down 14 people with a truck in New Orleans’ French Quarter was divorced three times and plagued by financial troubles — despite working for some of the country’s largest accounting firms, records show.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, was making $125,000 a year in 2022 working for Deloitte, one of the “Big Four” consulting firms — but the six-figure salary was not enough for him to overcome serious debt and make his hefty court-ordered child support payments, according to court documents obtained by ABC News.
In 2012, Jabbar’s ex-wife Nakedra Charrlle Jabbar divorced him in Harris County, Texas, and received custody of the couple’s two daughters, who were 5 and 8 at the time. Jabbar was ordered to pay $2,200 per month in child support.
The Houston native married his second wife, Tiera Symone Jabbar, in September 2013 — but he filed for divorce from her in Dekalb County, Georgia, in February 2016, stating in the complaint that “there is no hope that we will get back together,” according to ABC News.
In 2015, Jabbar left active duty in the Army and began studying computer science at Georgia State University, while also working as a senior cloud analyst at consulting firm Accenture. He was honorably discharged from the military in 2020 after five years in the reserves.
From 2019 to 2021, he worked at Ernst & Young — another Big Four firm — as a cloud consulting manager before landing the job at Deloitte while trying to grow his own real estate business.
The suspected terrorist was married for a third time in November 2017 to Shaneen Chantil Jabbar, with whom he had a third child, a son. In 2020, he filed for divorce in Fort Bend County, Texas, but requested the filing be dismissed a month later, which a judge granted.
Three years later, Jabbar wanted to divorce again, but Shaneen filed a counterclaim, sparking a bitter legal battle in which she accused him of having “flagrant disregard” for his financial responsibilities, ABC News reported.
Court filings also show that Jabbar’s property management company was losing money. He wanted the couple to sell their house and split the money as part of the divorce.
“l can not afford the house payment. It is past due in excess of $27,000 and in danger of foreclosure if we delay settling the divorce,” he wrote to Shaneen’s lawyer. “The home was not in default at the time we agreed to the temporary orders. l misunderstood the terms of the loan modification I had applied for at the time.”
In 2022, the court ruled that Shaneen would get the house and Jabbar was ordered to pay an additional $1,353 a month in child support for their son, of whom Shaneen was also granted primary custody. The court ordered Deloitte to withhold the extra child support from his paychecks, according to court records.
Jabbar plowed a rental truck with an ISIS flag attached into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers on New Orleans’ iconic Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday, killing at least 14 and wounding dozens of others.
While driving to New Orleans from Houston, he posted a series of disturbing videos on Facebook in which he pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to the FBI.
He had initially planned on murdering his family and friends, but changed his mind over concerns that the resulting media coverage wouldn’t focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia told reporters on Thursday.
Jabbar was shot dead by New Orleans police officers after he got out of the truck and started shooting.
Sources told The Post he had never been on a terrorist watchlist.