Mohamed Jalloh, Once Convicted of Supporting ISIS, Identified as Old Dominion Shooter
Jalloh, who also served in the National Guard, was out of prison for only 15 months before this attack.
Authorities identified Mohamed Jalloh, a former National Guardsman, as the shooter at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.
Jollah, a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, was convicted in 2017 of providing support to ISIS.
From The New York Post:
The madman who opened fire at Old Dominion University on Thursday, killing a retired military officer instructing an ROTC class, has been identified as an ex-National Guard soldier convicted of trying to support ISIS, The Post has learned.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, stormed into a classroom inside ODU’s Constant Hall and asked if it was an ROTC class. When someone confirmed that it was, he launched the suspected terror attack, shooting the professor several times, law enforcement sources said.
A heroic ROTC cadet at the Virginia school jumped into action to prevent more carnage, stabbing Jalloh to death after the crazed suspect gunned down the class instructor, the sources said.
The police said one person died and two victims remain in stable condition.
An FBI official told the media that Jalloh yelled “Allahu Akbar” in the classroom: “I can tell you that we have confirmed reports that prior to him conducting this act of terrorism, he stated Allahu Akbar and he was formally a subject of a FBI investigation in material supporting terrorism.”
'ACT OF TERRORISM': FBI Special agent Dominique Evans on the shooting at Old Dominion University:
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Jalloh served in the National Guard from 2009 to 2015. He held the rank of specialist when he left with an honorable discharge.
According to the Department of Justice, a member of ISIS connected Jalloh to a person whom neither knew worked as an FBI confidential human source:
According to court documents, Jalloh met with the CHS on two occasions in April and May 2016. During the April meeting, Jalloh told the CHS that he was a former member of the Army National Guard, but that he had decided to quit after listening to online lectures by Anwar al-Aulaqi, a deceased leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Jalloh stated that he recently had taken a six-month trip to Africa, where he had met with ISIL members in Nigeria and first began communicating online with the ISIL member who later brokered his introduction to the CHS.
During their meeting, Jalloh also told the CHS that he often thought about conducting an attack and that he knew how to shoot guns. Jalloh praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015, and stated that he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the November 2009 attack at Ft. Hood, Texas.
“Jalloh also asked if the CHS could assist him in providing a donation to ISIL,” the DOJ said in the press release. “Ultimately, Jalloh provided a prepaid cash transfer of $500 to a contact of the CHS that Jalloh believed was a member of ISIL, but who was in fact an undercover FBI employee.”
Jalloh received an 11-year prison sentence.
The system released Jalloh in December 2024.
So, yeah, Jalloh was out only 15 months before this attack.
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Mohamed Bailor Jalloh?
Okay, you can now remove and otherwise relax your shocked faces.
damnnn wht supremacists again!
Past time to change policies and return to locking up ideologically motivated, violence prone kooks for life. Voters and our political leadership class has got to stop pretending these folks can be returned to society safely.
Eighth amendment. You can’t lock someone up for life, merely for making a $500 donation to ISIS, let alone for expressing an inchoate desire to carry out an attack.
The 8A says no such thing. Your characterization of the $500 given to what he believed was an ISIS operative to further their terrorist cause as a ‘donation’ as if it was equivalent to writing a check to the Children’s Hospital is really in bad faith. There is a historical record with a host of contemporary punishments in common usage at the time of ratification that were very clearly not seen as either cruel or unusual b/c they were commonplace. Life imprisonment hardly meets the criteria of cruel given the plethora of crimes which carried a potential death sentence. A lobotomy following his gelding would be cruel.
Someone who professes the desire to kill his fellow countrymen, hands over funds to what he believes are terrorists aka material support of terrorism is either a dangerous lunatic and should be in a mental ward or he’s a sane but violent ideological time bomb waiting to go off and should be in prison.
That is a stupid. amendment these days. An “inchoate” desire….FTS.
Time to dust off Ol’ Sparky.
F keeping them in jail a while and letting them go.
These a traitors. I guess the word has no meaning anymore.
Fill the graveyards.
blames good legal moral gun laws for this:
Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi decries the “cult of gun absolutism” after the Old Dominion Univ. shooting that left one person and the shooter dead.
Old Dominion is a gun-free zone, but I’m not sure that can be blamed for this. If the hero who stabbed him had been allowed to carry a gun, would he have managed to kill him any sooner? Soon enough to have prevented the professor from being killed? Probably not.
But since it was a “gun free zone”, it’s fortunate there was someone armed with an adequate knife, who was trained to fight, and had the physical ability to do so. If you didn’t have that guy, with no one armed, the slaughter would have been much worse.
OTOH, with students armed as they see fit, the Great Equalizer comes into play, and a properly armed grandma can take care of matters.
BTW, I will almost guarantee the knife in question could be construed as violating the law on concealed weapons here in Virginia. At least by said Commonwealth’s Attorney. The jury probably wouldn’t convict, but the process is the punishment.
You’re missing the deterrent principle. The shooter knew he wouldn’t encounter armed resistance in that classroom…at least not firearmed.
a good person with a gun who saw him with a rifle and confronted him BEFORE the carnage
is also possible
And that nonsense uttered by the attorney general of VA … thank the FOOLish voters of Virginia who elected him.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced that Thursday’s shooting at Old Dominion was stopped in part by “a group of brave students who stepped in” and subdued Jalloh, saying the students’ actions “undoubtedly saved lives.”
and we cant even get the armed leo to stop blmplo from burning down america
“Subdued” — other reports have a knife-armed member of ROTC punturing the thug until he stopped moving.
I was hoping to hear that that the student used a pencil.
It’s best that Kash Patel said it was a group of brave students. If it was a single student and he was identified he would have a target on his back.
Slam his traitorous Head on a pointy spike at the University Entrance!
was out of prison for only 15 months before this attack
You say that like it’s surprising. I think the vast majority of felons re-engage in criminal activity a lot sooner than that. Terrorists probably take a little longer because of planning and looking for the right opportunity. (The war with Iran was probably this guy’s “opportunity.”)
Strip of citizenship, deport. At minimum.
In federal court with federal jurisdiction .. death sentence.
I have to ask again:
Didn’t we just have a “Jalloh” in the news? One of these miscreants, or an illegal alien version? Sometime in 2026.
(My search-fu sucks.)
Illegal version…also here in Virginia where this bs has been tolerated far too long. Mostly conservative corner of the state but Norfolk is a proggie (and corrupt and broken) city.
Wonder if they’ll charge the student for “having a weapon?”
“Jalloh praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015”
Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Joseph Sullivan (USMC) Was one of the young men killed in that attack. We went to high school together here in Massachusetts.
I never got to know him very well.
Never hung out with the kid outside of high school.
A lot of the kids we went to school with I see them all complain about Trump deportations, I just posted this article on Facebook so they can all read and see.
“A heroic ROTC cadet at the Virginia school jumped into action to prevent more carnage, stabbing Jalloh to death after the crazed suspect gunned down the class instructor, the sources said.”
I know someone who doesn’t have to take the final.
Virginia may try him as a murderer.
18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Punishment for treason is “death, or… not less than five years.” That’s quite a spread. Special that when this guy was convicted we ostensibly were at war with the abstraction [Muslim] terrorism.
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Perhaps the statute needs to be updated. Perhaps any group that advocates for the ultimate overthrow of the United States government, and can be demonstrated to have conducted terrorism or financially or otherwise aided any terrorist group, ipso facto should be considered to be an “enemy” whether or not formally designated as such.