The guy planned to kill his while family, and apparently hated 50 cent. The only reason he didn’t kill his family was because he thought it would shift the focus away from the ideological aspect:
His electric truck was already headed toward New Orleans, traveling from his trailer home outside Houston and past the twinkling oil refineries to the east, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar began capturing a video on his phone in the dark.
“I wanted to record this message for my family,” Mr. Jabbar said. “I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year.”
Mr. Jabbar then added a chilling addendum.
“I don’t want you to think I spared you willingly,” he said, according to details of the video reviewed by The New York Times. He told his family that he had previously conceived of organizing a “celebration” for them and then making everyone “witness the killing of the apostates.”
Recordings about Islamic teachings were posted to an account on the audio website SoundCloud that appears to belong to Mr. Jabbar; the voice was verified by his half brother. In one of them, he warned that music had the power to lure people “into the things that God had made forbidden to us,” such as alcohol, marijuana, vulgarity and crime.
The recording goes on to suggest a connection between the release of “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” a rap album by 50 Cent, and a series of murders in his neighborhood. He said he worried that Muslims listening to such music were being drawn into evil.
“And the voice of Satan spreading among Prophet Muhammad’s followers — peace be upon him — is a sign of the end times,” he said in the message about a year ago, in early 2024.
