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.”
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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