By: Kaitlin Knapp
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — How does a man, who was a U.S. Army veteran, go from protecting our country to being called a terrorist with allegiance to ISIS? It’s a question Fox 4 Senior Reporter Kaitlin Knapp asked a former FBI agent.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar is the man FBI officials say hit and killed at least 14 people and injured dozens in New Orleans on Wednesday.
The FBI quickly said this was a terrorist attack and later revealed information about Jabbar. They said he was born in Texas, became a soldier and later a real estate agent.
At some point, that changed.
“That split in the road for him will be what the FBI profilers are looking for — what was going on his life where he made that switch,” said Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI agent and profiler. “At some point in his life he was able to emotionally change.”