It was revealed Thursday morning that the Army veteran who rammed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans had gone though a contentious divorce and an economy crisis before turning to terror.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, who was born and raised in Texas, had successfully climbed the corporate ladder after being dishonorably charged from the military, where he served as a human-resources and information-technology specialist and spent 11 months in Afghanistan.
He went on to study computer-information systems at Georgia State University, held a job at IT company Accenture and gave real estate a try before returning to Texas in 2018, starting a job as a cloud-consulting manager for Ernst & Young, an accounting company.
Jabbar then started work as a ‘senior solutions specialist at Deloitte from 2021 until at least the past fall. According to a pay stub shown in court, he made the equivalent of nearly …