Shamsud-Din Jabbar biography: 13 things about US Army veteran born in Beaumont, Texas

Who was Shamsud-Din Jabbar?

Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar was an American information technology specialist and real estate agent from Houston, Texas, United States. He was a U.S. Army veteran and was married and divorced three times.

Jabbar was 1 year older than his former wife Nakedra Charrlle Jabbar and 2 years older than his former wife Shaneen Chantil Jabbar. Shamsud-Din and Nakedra have two daughters together.

Born in Beaumont, Texas to Abdal Jabbar and Herma Jabbar, Shamsud-Din grew up in Beaumont with his two brothers. Shamsud-Din was an alumnus of Central High School in Beaumont, Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas, Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and the noncommissioned officer (NCO) academies of Fort Eisenhower, Augusta, Georgia and Fort Richardson, Alaska, USA.

Aside from Beaumont and Houston, Shamsud-Din also lived in other parts of Texas including Cypress, Fresno and Lissie. He lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA and in different parts of Georgia including Clarkson, Marietta and Thomson.

After being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, Shamsud-Din pursued both real estate and cloud computing. He served as the property manager and president of Blue Meadow Properties LLC in Sugar Land, Texas.

In 2012, Shamsud-Din was registered as a Democrat in North Carolina although he had no party affiliation on his Texas voter registration. In 2013, his gross monthly resources were about $3,990.

In 2021, Shamsud-Din left Ernst & Young. From 2021 to 2022, he worked for the financial services company Deloitte where he earned $120,000 a year.

Shamsud-Din promoted his real estate business in a 2020 YouTube video, which was deleted shortly after his death in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 2000, his younger brother Abdur Jabbar was born.
2. In 2001, he graduated from Central High School.
3. In December 2002, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft of between $50 and $500 in Harris County, Texas and was sentenced to nine months of community supervision.
4. Nakedra gave birth to their two daughters in 2004 and 2009.
5. On August 12, 2004, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Houston but on September 13, 2004, he was discharged.
6. In 2005, he was charged with driving with a suspended license.
7. From March 2007 to January 2015, he served on U.S. Army active duty as a human resources and IT specialist.
8. From 2008 to 2010, he attended Central Texas College where he earned his associate’s degree in computer science.
9. From February 2009 to January 2010, he deployed to Afghanistan.
10. On July 12, 2012, Nakedra filed a child support case against him in Harris County.
11. In 2013, when he and Nakedra had their divorce finalized, he was ordered to pay $660 in child support and she was granted majority custody of their children.
12. In 2015, he joined the U.S. Army Reserve as an IT operations manager.
13. From 2015 to 2017, he attended Georgia State University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems.

TIMELINE

2016

• Another ex-wife accused him of being abusive and divorced him.

2017

• In 2017, he married Shaneen in Texas and he founded Blue Meadow Properties LLC.

2018

• In 2018, he joined Accenture as a cloud migration engineer and started working at Ernst & Young in cloud computing.

2019

• In 2019, he left Accenture and obtained a real estate license.

2020

• In July 2020, he left the U.S. Army Reserve as a staff sergeant and Shaneen was granted a restraining order she took out against him.

2021

• On July 22, 2021, he filed for divorce from Shaneen in Fort Bend County, Texas.

2022

• In January 2022, he wrote in an email to Shaneen’s lawyer Daryl Longworth, “I cannot afford the house payment. It is past due in excess of $27,000 and in danger of foreclosure if we delay settling the divorce.”
• In February 2022, he claimed in his divorce filings that he amassed $16,000 in credit card debt to pay for housing, attorney’s fees and other expenses.
• He and Shaneen lived in Fresno before their divorce was finalized in August 2022.

2023

• In 2023, his real estate license expired.

2024

• In October 2024, he turned 42.
• On December 30, 2024, he rented Rodrigo Diaz‘s Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck through the Turo app.
• At around 3:15 a.m. on January 1, 2025, he was fatally shot by New Orleans Police Department officers after he intentionally rammed Diaz’s Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 10 people and injuring at least 35 others.

Anyone with information about Shamsud-Din Jabbar is asked to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation‘s New Orleans Bureau at 504-816-3000 or tips@fbi.gov.