While Shamsud Din-Jabbar’s public persona appeared relatively ordinary, his radicalization remains a subject of intense scrutiny.

Bomb-making materials have been found in the Houston-area trailer owned by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man responsible for the deadly Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s Day.

Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a former Army Staff Sergeant, had a distinguished military career from 2007 to 2020, serving as an IT and Human Resources Specialist with deployments in Afghanistan.

Two deadly incidents on New Year’s Day — an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism in New Orleans and an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas — both involved vehicles that were rented on Turo, a peer-to-peer car sharing company.

The FBI now says the New Orleans truck attack acted alone when he drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing 14 people.

A driver behind the wheel of a pickup truck rammed into a crowd of New Orleans revelers on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 people in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism.