Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, an Army vet from Texas, died in a shootout with police that left two officers injured. He was flying an ISIS flag on the rented Ford F-150. The FBI has yet to confirm his possible connections or affiliations with the terrorist group.
The Sugar Bowl college football playoff game between Georgia and Notre Dame, originally scheduled for Wednesday, is set to go on today at 3 p.m. local time at the Caesar Superdome, about 1 mile away from the attack.
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 country’s largest accounting firms, records show.
Jabbar had posted a barrage of deranged videos on social media confessing his alignment with the Islamic terror group and expressing a desire to kill just minutes before the carnage, the feds said. FBI
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 five and eight at the time. Jabbar was ordered to pay $2,200 per month in child support.
The local mosque in terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s Houston community has urged its members to avoid speaking with the media and to refer any potential FBI inquiries to the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Masjid Bilal sounded the alarm to congregants in a statement posted to social media on Wednesday addressing Jabbar’s heinous attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that left 14 people dead.
“If anyone is contacted by the media, it is very important that you do not respond,” the mosque, located within walking distance of Jabbar’s dilapidated trailer, wrote in an announcement. “If approached by the FBI and a response is necessary, please refer to CAIR and ISGH.”
“It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts,” the statement continued.
All eyes were on ESPN on Thursday as the Sugar Bowl took place a little more than 24 hours after an ISIS-inspired terrorist created mayhem on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that left 14 people dead and injured dozens more.
But noticeably absent from the pregame broadcast on the main network was the national anthem and the moment of silence held in honor of the tragedy that occurred about 1 mile away from the Caesars Superdome where Notre Dame and Georgia squared off.
The exclusion of both moments from the ESPN telecast angered some football fans and led to criticism of the network on social media.
However, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Post that several factors played into why the national anthem and moment of silence didn’t make it on air, in particular, the awkwardness of the transition out of a commercial break.
The New Orleans terrorist’s pledge of allegiance to ISIS came as a shock to many who felt the infamous terror group had long been defeated.
But Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old Army vet from Texas who mowed down dozens of New Year’s revelers, killing 15 and injuring many more on Bourbon Street on Jan. 1, was flying an ISIS flag on his rented truck.
Jabbar also posted five videos claiming to have been “inspired by ISIS” and expressing a “desire to kill” prior to his spree, which ended with him being gunned down by police after he exited the vehicle.
”ISIS might have changed over the years but the way they work and influence people is similar,” Kerry O’Brien Smith, a research head with the American Leadership and Policy Foundation who specializes in protecting children from radicalization, told The Post of the group, who briefly imposed an evil and ultra-hardline Muslim regime in the Middle East ten years ago.
The mother of a 25-year-old man who was killed in the heinous New Orleans terror attack on Bourbon Street told her son how worried she was for his safety in a final text exchange before learning his fate.
“I love you. Happy New Year,” Matthew Tenedorio’s mother, Cathy, texted her son, CNN reported.
“You know, text me when you get home. Please don’t forget, we’re going to be worried about you.”
Tenedorio, an audiovisual technician at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, died from a gunshot wound sustained in the fatal attack when ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on the iconic street, killing 14, before he was shot dead in a gunfight with cops, the outlet reported.
“I love you. Happy New Year,” Matthew Tenedorio’s mother, Cathy, texted her son, CNN reported. Cathy Tenedorio
Cathy said she last saw her son at dinner on New Year's Even before he headed to the Big Easy to ring in the New Year with friends. When chaos erupted in the early morning hours Wednesday, Tenedorio ran to help those wounded in the monstrous attack, she said.
"This morning the gravity of the situation really hit home, and I just realized that I will never see my son again," his father, Lou, told the outlet.
"I just broke down, and honestly, my heart is broken. It's just so hard for me right now to live with this."
"This morning the gravity of the situation really hit home, and I just realized that I will never see my son again," his father, Lou, told the outlet. Gofundme
"Matthew was young, talented, and had a bright future, helping deliver quality content for both the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans," the NFL and NBA teams said.
"Our thoughts, prayers, and deepest condolences are with the Tenedorio family and everyone affected by this senseless act of terrorism.
"Together, as a city, state, and region, we will come back stronger from this tragedy."
Wild video has emerged of the Bourbon Street shootout between police and New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar — showing New Year’s revelers running for their lives as shots rang out in the French Quarter.
“What the f–k! A guy just f–king died,” the videographer yells while filming Jabbar's rented white Ford pickup truck after it crashed into a construction vehicle on the bustling street early Wednesday morning.
Not one second later, dozens of shots are heard in the gunfight between police and Jabbar, 42, who had just plowed the pickup into crowds celebrating the New Year, killing 14 people and injuring over 30 others.
“The big reason why we came is to spite them,” Mississippian Mark Beaden told The Post as he strolled down Bourbon Street drinking with his wife Thursday.
“The hell with ISIS,” he said of the terror organization that 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar pledged allegiance to before speeding down the bustling Big Easy street in a rented Ford F-150 early Wednesday.
Authorities in New Orleans committed several errors that made it easy for an unhinged madman to plow into New Year’s revelers early Wednesday — and may have gotten too “lackadaisical” after having handled large crowd sizes in the past, a security expert told The Post.
Taken together, the missteps and oversights likely gave homegrown terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar just enough leeway to execute his wicked plan — which has left 14 dead and dozens more injured after the massacre on Bourbon Street.
Ironically, the New Orleans Police Department might have been a victim of its past success, according to Clint Emerson, a retired Navy SEAL and owner of security company Escape the Wolf.
ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured in new images strolling around New Orleans a little over an hour before he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating the New Year on Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 people.
The FBI released surveillance footage of the killer walking along Dauphin Street near Governor Nicholls Street around 2:03 a.m. wearing a light brown long coat, a dark-colored button-down shirt, blue jeans and what appears to be brown dress shoes.
Security cameras caught Jabbar walking in New Orleans before the attack. FBI
The federal agency also released an image of a blue-and-white cooler that contained an IED, which Jabbar placed near the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans Street, according to the FBI.
Anyone with information or additional footage is asked to submit a tip.
NOLA Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick admits she was unaware temporary bollards were available to block street on night of terror attack
New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick admitted that she was unaware that temporary road barriers were available to New Orleans as she debuted the safety measures in place for Thursday’s Sugar Bowl.
“Actually, we had them, I didn’t know about them, have 'em and so we have been able now to put them out," Kirkpatrick replied when asked where the bright-yellow "archer" barriers" that were installed just hours after the attack came from.
NEW: New Orleans Police Superintendent says she had no clue that New Orleans had sidewalk barriers to defend against terror attacks, which are now being used today.
What a total embarrassment.
Reporters seemed shocked when Anne Kirkpatrick bizarrely admitted that she was… pic.twitter.com/5prEdJyuj8
The permanent bollards installed in the city’s famed French Quarter were removed for upgrades in November ahead of Superbowl LIX at the Superdome.
Their removal left one of the nation’s most-famed party streets unprotected in the early hours of Jan. 1, when terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove his truck — which had an ISIS flag on the back — through the busy streets, mowing down revelers before he was shot dead by cops following a gunfight.
Police vehicles were used to create a temporary barrier during the New Year’s celebration, but surveillance video captured Jabbar driving around the SUV to carry out the attack.
New Orleans upgraded security ahead of Thursday’s postponed Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and the University of Georgia, with Kirkpatrick announcing hundreds of police officers would be patrolling the city.
“We are staffing up at the same level if not more so than we were prepared for Super Bowl.”
New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar had a workbench in his bedroom that was set up for making bombs – while a Quran on his bookshelf was left open to a passage about martyrdom, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show.
A Quran open to a passage about martyrdom was found at the scene as well. F. Carter Smith for NY Post
Jabbar’s house was filled with chemical residues and chemical bottles, while a list of items seized by FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list compounds used in for bomb-making.
The last quote from the open page of the Quaran reads, “they fight in His [Allah’s] cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”
A Bourbon Street terror attack survivor who was already paralyzed from the waist down recalled Thursday how he pleaded for help as he was on the ground next to his wrecked wheelchair.
"No one would come, and so I pushed myself on my back, and I saw people, and they were taking pictures from the balcony, and I was screaming out for help and people were just looking at me," Jeremi Sensky, who broke both of his legs, told NBC News from his hospital bed.
Jeremi Sensky was severely injured and wheelchair was crushed in the attack. Facebook / Heaven Lee Sensky Kirsch
A cop eventually came up to him, telling him he was “lucky to be alive” and that many victims didn’t survive the sick attack that authorities later confirmed was carried out by radicalized Army vet Shamsud-Din Jabbar early New Year’s Day.
Sensky, who was paralyzed from the waist down before the attack, doesn’t think anyone understood he couldn’t walk. He was later carried to an ambulance and rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
"I kept asking for someone to help me and get me out of there and it took a while," he reportedly said. "I realized that it was a bad scene."
Sensky said the entire ordeal happened so quickly he doesn’t remember much.
Sensky said he was screaming on the ground after the attack. Facebook / Heaven Lee Sensky Kirsch
"I’m assuming I got hit by the truck, but honestly, nobody’s ever told me that, so I don’t know," Sensky told the outlet.
"But my wheelchair was completely bashed and the pieces were all over the place, so something hit me."
