The descent of an army vet turned corporate consultant named in the new year’s attack

The alleged terrorist behind the New Year’s killing spree in New Orleans was a born-and-bred Texan, an Army veteran, and father of three who had climbed the corporate ladder. On his internal profile page at Deloitte & Touche, where he worked from 2021 to at least the past fall as a “senior solutions specialist," Jabbar posted about his interests including hunting and prayer. Marilyn Bradford, a former neighbor of Jabbar’s at an apartment complex in the northern part of Houston, described him as “very to himself" and said, “He wasn’t a sociable person at all." In 2020, he filed for divorce from his second wife, Shaneen Jabbar, after three years, stating that the marriage was “insupportable due to discord or conflict of personalities," according to court records. Jabbar’s recent address in the Houston area shared the same street with nearly a dozen properties owned by people with names common in Islamic cultures, according to Harris County, Texas, land records.