The man suspected of mowing down dozens of New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans, killing 14, complained of problems communicating in the civilian world in a nine-year-old interview that has resurfaced this week.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who died in a shootout with police in the French Quarter early Wednesday morning, told the student newspaper at Georgia State University in 2015 that he didn’t “know how to speak” after leaving the military.

“The culture isn’t too much different, but once you get out of the military, there’s so many different acronyms you’ve learned,” Jabbar, spelled Jabaar in the article, told his student interviewer. “And as you transition out … you don’t know how to speak without using these terms, and you’re not sure what terms are used outside the military.”

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