As we've now heard, the suspect in Las Vegas and the man who committed the terrorist attack in New Orleans, both served in the military.

To examine that side of the story, we turn now to Nick Schifrin. Nick.

As we've said, there is no connection, according to law enforcement, between the two men, but their military services did overlap.

So is there a pattern? We can discern, and what are some of

the possible reasons that veterans or active duty soldiers could turn to extremism? For perspective,

we turn to Heidi Byrick, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

Heidi Byrick, thanks very much. Welcome back to the News Hour. Let's focus on New Orleans for a second, Shamsadine Jabbar.

Does his history, in your opinion, fit a pattern of men who become radicalized?

Yes, there are parts of his recent history that are very common to all kinds of types of folks

that have been radicalized, whether white supremacists

or Islamic extremists or otherwise.

What I'm talking about is the collapse of his family background, his multiple divorces, financial

problems.

We find a lot of times that mass attackers have this kind of collapse in their family life going on.

And then there's the issue of him being a veteran.

And if that might have played a role, that's also something that comes up in a lot of mass attacks.

I'm going to examine the veteran aspect in a question in a second.

But let's just listen to how Jabbar described himself back when he was selling

real estate. So not only do I brilliantly market your property to make sure it gets sold as

quickly as possible or gets leased as quickly as possible, but I'm also going to take every ounce

of energy and putting it into negotiating for you and for your property to get

the best deal that you can possibly get for it. And let me read a statement on X today from

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