HOUSTON — A New Orleans terrorist lives in a dilapidated trailer with cheap furniture, rusty workout equipment and perhaps a handgun case on the kitchen table, an exclusive first inside look has been released.
The home in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood of North Houston where Shamsud Din Jabbar lived before he attacked Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more. It appears to have been abandoned in a hurry.
Neighbors told the Post that Mr. Jabbar, 42, had left his home hours before the bloody rampage at 3 a.m. and was planning to move to the Big Easy in search of a better job. He claimed that.
Muntaz Bashir, who lives next door, said he offered to help Jabbar move that morning, but the suspect explained that he had moved into a furnished apartment in New Orleans and had not brought anything with him.
Bashir saw the new white Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck used during Jabbar's rampage and assumed he had rented or purchased it for the move.
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On Tuesday morning, just hours after neighbors spoke, Mr. Jabbar was shot and killed by police about 350 miles away as he drove the same truck through a packed crowd.
“Unfortunately, you can't read people's minds,” Bashir said, explaining that Jabbar seemed perfectly normal when they spoke that morning.
“I was in shock.”
