ATLANTA — A series of Cobb County, Georgia, police reports over a span of eight months between 2015 and 2016 show instances of alleged domestic violence between the New Orleans terror attack suspect and his wife at the time.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas, lived in the Atlanta area during his second marriage, earning a degree from Georgia State University and spending part of his military career based in Georgia. On Wednesday, he was named as the suspect by the FBI in the attack that left 14 people dead and dozens of others injured in the French Quarter. Police shot and killed Jabbar at the scene on Bourbon Street.

Before leaving Georgia, Jabbar was married to a woman and they lived at a home in Marietta owned by her father. The couple were married in September 2013, court records show. At some point, Jabbar moved to a residence in Clarkston in DeKalb County and the Cobb police reports in 2015 and 2016 list that as his address.

According to a July 10, 2015 report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request, police responded to the Marietta home on Horseshoe Creek Drive relating to a domestic dispute. Upon arrival, officers spoke to Jabbar’s wife, who told them they were having disagreements on issues related to their marriage and a heated argument took place, with Jabbar damaging two doors in the home.

No injuries were reported in the incident. According to the report, she told officers that she was the stepmother of Jabbar’s two children, who she claimed were disrespectful toward her. The AJC is not naming Jabbar’s former wife because the newspaper does not name victims of alleged domestic violence. Cobb police on Friday said they have no record of arresting or charging Jabbar in the three incidents.

According to the report, she said the couple had been talking about divorce and Jabbar handed her divorce papers that day.

According to the report, she remained calm about it, which she claims irritated him. The argument escalated and he became enraged, according to her.

“She was scared so she first locked herself in the bedroom then the master bathroom. Sham Jabbar kicked the bedroom door in then punched a large hole in bathroom door. Mrs. Jabbar said that she eventually calmed him down. She was not injured at anytime,” officers wrote in the report.

According to the report, Jabbar left the home before police arrived and the children were not present. His wife told police that her father would not seek charges for the damage and Jabbar had already agreed to make the repairs.

More than a month later on Aug. 19, 2015, police responded to the home again regarding another dispute, which had occurred five days earlier. Jabbar’s wife told police that she was taking a bath when he became argumentative, escalating the argument and cussing at her, according to the report.

According to the report, Jabbar’s wife said he slapped her and proceeded to choke her. When she told him that she was going to call police, he threw her phone in the bathtub. She also told officers that he threatened to kill her. Officers said they saw no visible injury, swelling or bruises on her.

While officers were still talking to her, Jabbar arrived at the home and told police that she was the aggressor after he got off the phone with his children, claiming that it was a point of contention for her, according to the report. He claimed she punched and he put his hands up trying to block the punches in self-defense, according to the report.

“Due to the lack of a witness and physical evidence to substantiate either story I did not have probable cause for an arrest,” officers wrote in the report, adding that Jabbar’s wife told them she was planning to file a temporary protective order.

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter could not find a temporary protective order on record.

The last incident took place on March 7, 2016, when police responded to the Marietta home again regarding a domestic dispute. Jabbar’s wife told police that she was still married to him at the time, but he wasn’t living at the home and they were in the process of a divorce “due to previous issues they had,” according to the report.

According to the report, Jabbar had arrived at the home unannounced to give her some of the divorce paperwork and pick up some clothes he still had at the house. As Jabbar was getting in the car, she approached him with another bag of clothes and asked him to give her a house key she believed he still had.

According to the report, she told police that Jabbar became angry after her request, started to threaten her and threw the key in the yard. She confronted him up close, which prompted Jabbar to push her and she slapped him in the face, according to the report.

She claims Jabbar went to the garage, grabbed a small hand saw and threatened to hurt her if she ever slapped him again, according to the report. Officers did not see any physical bruises on her.

Officers informed her of the process of obtaining a warrant, advised her to seek legal counsel related to the divorce, to avoid contact with Jabbar and to call police if he returned, according to the report.

DeKalb divorce court records show Jabbar filed for divorce on May 19, 2016, after the three incidents, but the two had been separated since Feb. 22, 2016.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reached out to Jabbar’s former wife, who now lives in east Georgia, and her father has said the family does not wish to comment. The FBI Atlanta office confirmed that they had contacted her and her family at their home near Augusta and they were cooperating with law enforcement.

(Staff writers Danielle Charbonneau, Caroline Silva and Fletcher Page contributed to this story.)

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