“The person” who murdered at least fifteen people and injured dozens more in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans “was an Army veteran,” said FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Alethea Duncan at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. 

“We believe he was [an] honorable discharge. But we’re working through this process to figure out all this information.” While it’s possible that he could have gotten a dishonorable discharge, this would have been a discordant end to what appears to have been a capable term of service. 

So what happened to Shamsud-Din Jabbar to turn him from a loyal soldier of the United States into a bloodthirsty jihad mass murderer? Everyone knows. Few dare say.