The man who killed 15 people in the New Orleans terror attack had been left in financial ruin after a string of messy divorces, according to court documents. Shamsud-Din Jabbar bypassed police blockades to mow down party-goers celebrating in the city's Bourbon Street nightlife district in a horror vehicle ramming attack on New Year's Day. The 42-year-old assailant, from Texas, was shot dead by police officers at the scene.
An ISIS flag was found on his rented truck. The FBI say they are treating the incident as a terrorist act and do not believe he acted alone. US President Joe Biden said the agency had found the videos the driver posted to social media hours before the "heinous" attack.
Now, court documents seen by ABC News show that Shamsud-Din Jabbar had been through three messy divorces, and was struggling with mounting debt at the time the most recent proceedings concluded in 2022. In 2012, his ex-wife Nakedra Charrllee Jabbar successfully sued him for child support payments for the couple's two young daughters, and he married second wife Tiera Symone Jabbar in September the following year.
He then filed for divorce in Dekalb County, Georgia in February 2016, and ticked a box on a grounds for divorce form stating the marriage was "irretrievably broken". A third marriage to Shaneen Chantil Jabbar followed in November 2017, but by July 2020 he had already filed for divorce, court papers state. This filing was dismissed by the court a month later after a request by the couple, who "no longer desire[d] to prosecute his/her respective suits against the other party".
