at least 15 dead after car-ramming attack, a probable “terrorist act”

Aged 42, the suspect in the car-ramming attack was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an “American national from Texas” and former Army soldier, by federal police.

More specifically, he was in the army from 2007 to 2015 including a deployment to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 finishing as a staff sergeant, according to the Department of Defense.

A childhood friend who found him in 2017 told the New York Times that the suspect had become “really intense” about his faith. The FBI indicated that “an (jihadist group) IS flag was in his vehicle” and that two homemade explosive devices found in the car and in the neighborhood had been defused.

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