A 42-year-old Texas native swore allegiance to the ISIS terror group and plowed a pickup trip into a crowd of New Year’s revelers on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street early Wednesday, killing at least 14 and injuring more than 30 others. 

The FBI identified the killer as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a twice-divorced Army veteran who, despite a lucrative job at a large consulting firm, had a history of financial struggles and missed child support payments, records show.

Much of the information was made publicly available at a news briefing Thursday involving Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and ATF Special Agent Joshua Jackson.

“Let me be clear about this point,” Raia told reporters Thursday. “This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act.”

Thursday, Jan. 2

Authorities continued to release additional details about the attacker and search homes in both Houston and New Orleans.

On a call with congressional lawmakers, the FBI revealed it had no intelligence on Jabbar prior to the attack.

“The FBI on the call said that they had no knowledge of Jabbar – he was not on their radar,” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee who was on the call, told Fox News. “They had no intel about him. He wasn’t someone they were watching. And I think that is incredibly scary because we’ve always heard about the sleeper cells that exist in our country.”

Aerial image of New Orleans attack suspect’s home in Houston, Texas. (KRIV)

Prior to the attack, Jabbar served in the U.S. Army. He was a human resource specialist and IT specialist from March 2007 until 2015. He then continued as an IT specialist in the Army Reserve until July 2020. 

More recently, he worked for Deloitte, a major international accounting firm.

Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Liz Friden, Brooke Curto, Jennifer Griffin, Aishah Hasnie and Chad Pergram contributed to this report.