A former wife of Shamsud Din Jabbarthe terrorist at the center of the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, is in disbelief…but tells of a marriage she says was “abusive” – and this is a different woman than the one against whom a restraining order was filed.
The ex-wife, Tierratells TMZ … she was married to Shamsud-Din for about five years before they divorced in 2016. She says her marriage was unhappy and said Shamsud-Din abused her… although she wouldn't elaborate.
Still, Tiera tells us that she didn't think he was capable of committing mass murder and had no idea how this hatred could come over him.
According to Tiera, the last time she heard from Shamsud-Din was about two months ago… he reached out to her to tell her that he had been thinking about the son they had lost – she was in the sixth month of her pregnancy while she were married, suffered a miscarriage.
Per Tiera, Shamsud-Din contacted her on Facebook and asked for some of her late son's belongings. She says they had a pleasant conversation… just thinking about the past.
Tiera believed that Shamsud-Din was doing better, although she decided to block him online in order to move on with her life… before this conversation, they had not been in contact for years.
Tiera says she learned on Facebook that Shamsud-Din practices Islam … and adds that he wasn't religious when they got married.
Tiera was married to Jabbar before the woman obtained a temporary restraining order against him In 2020, TMZ broke the story that a judge issued an order prohibiting violence against the spouse or child and also prohibiting him from running away with the child.
As TMZ previously reported, at least 15 people were killed and dozens were injured in the pickup truck attack deliberately driven into a crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday.
Authorities have named Shamsud-Din as the driver… a 42-year-old man from Texas who had an ISIS flag in the back of the truck. He died after a shootout with police.
Authorities now say there is surveillance video that shows three other men and a woman appearing to plant explosives in the area. The FBI says he did not act alone.