The man suspected of carrying out the New Orleans New Year’s Eve attack, Shamsud-Din JabbarAccording to court records reviewed by ABC News, she had a checkered marriage history punctuated by multiple divorces and financial difficulties.
Records also show that after his military service, Jabbar worked for two of the nation’s largest professional services firms, Ernst. & Young and Deloitte, as he aimed to grow his new real estate business.
Jabbar has been identified as a suspect by the FBI deadly attack At the New Year’s party. At least 15 people were killed and more than two dozen injured after a rented Ford pickup plowed through a crowd on Bourbon Street at high speed early Wednesday, authorities said.
Jabbar, who police said was killed in the attack, was a 42-year-old US citizen and US Army veteran from Texas, according to the FBI.
As of 2022, while working at Deloitte, the documents show Jabbar was making nearly $125,000 a year — a salary that was garnished by a court from payments to his children from a past marriage and credit card and mortgage debt.
Undated photo of Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
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In 2012, Nakedra’s ex-wife Charrllee Jabbar sued in Harris County, Texas, over child support payments for the couple’s two daughters, who were eight and three at the time, according to court records.
Four years later, in 2016, Jabbar filed for divorce from another wife, Tiera Symone Jabbar, in Dekalb County, Georgia. The complaint form, which was filled out by hand, says the two got married in September 2013 but separated less than two-and-a-half years later in February 2016. According to the grounds for divorce, Jabbar checked the box on the form that said “it’s our marriage.” irrevocably broken,” adding that the couple “can’t live together and there’s no hope we’ll ever get back together.”
In July 2020, in Fort Bend County, Texas, Jabbar filed for divorce from his wife Shaneen Chantil Jabbar, whom he married in November 2017, according to court records. But the couple asked to dismiss the case a month after it was filed, saying “both of them no longer wish to litigate their respective cases against the other party” — a request the court granted.
Police investigators surround a white pickup truck that crashed into a work elevator on January 1, 2025 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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However, when Jabbar filed for divorce again a year later, his then-wife responded with a counterclaim, pointing to apparent bad blood between them that sparked the lengthy courtship stemming at least in part from financial difficulties.
In a filing, Shaneen’s attorney accused Jabbar of “gross neglect” of her household’s financial obligations — that during the marriage, Jabbar was “given the management, control and disposition of all community property funds.”
Although Shaneen “trusted and believed” her husband would “faithfully carry out” her management, he breached their “fiduciary relationship”, according to the soon-to-be’s former lawyer.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar “deliberately and without regard to his duties as a manager and trustee of community funds has mismanaged the community’s assets, all while defrauding his wife’s financial interests,” it said.
Shaneen’s filings also said Jabbar withheld important information about his retirement savings from the court, noting in a July 2022 filing that Jabbar did not make statements showing he participated in Ernst’s retirement plan. & Young, where the filing indicates that Jabbar worked at Deloitte before joining.
The dead suspect is seen in the New Orleans attack on January 1, 2025.
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The acrimonious split between the Shaneens led Jabbar to break up with his lawyer. Attorney Robert Tsai — who represented Jabbar in her 2012 divorce — withdrew from the case in September 2021, citing his inability to “communicate effectively” with his client “consistent with good attorney-client relations.” Court records indicate that Jabbar represented himself in the divorce proceedings.
In court filings, Jabbar explained some of his financial difficulties, explaining why he sought a divorce settlement in which the couple would sell the house and split the proceeds. Blue Meadow Properties, the property management company founded by Jabbar, was not making any income and was, in fact, losing money, according to court filings.
“Time is of the essence,” he wrote in a Jan. 6, 2022, email to his wife’s attorney. “I can’t afford the house payment. It’s over $27,000 past due and in danger of foreclosure if we delay the repair. Divorce. The house wasn’t there at the time we agreed to the temporary orders, so I asked for the terms of the loan modification.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, has been identified as the suspect in a New Year’s Day 2025 attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed at least 15 people.
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Jabbar’s 2022 divorce filing with Shaneen shows he was already responsible for paying $2,200 a month in child support after his divorce from Nakedra. Ultimately, Jabbar was ordered to pay an additional $1,353 a month in child support to help care for the son he shared with Shaneen, according to the documents.
The court ordered Deloitte to withhold additional child support from her wages.
His ex-wife Shaneen got the house, despite Jabbar’s request to sell the asset and split the proceeds, court records show. She received primary custody of the son, although Jabbar won visitation rights, records show.
During the divorce, court records show that both Jabbard and Shaneen took four hours of parenting instruction from “The Texas Cooperative.” parenthood Course,” and each stated that they had “successfully completed” the course and “thereby committed to work with other parents in the best interests of their child/children.” Jabbar’s date is August 20, 2021. Shane’s is August 2021 30’s
ABC News attempted to contact Nakedra, Tiera and Shaneen on Wednesday. Phone calls or text messages were not returned.
