US EditionGunman in fatal Old Dominion University shooting identified as Mohamed Jalloh, a convicted ISIS supporter: Report
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, released in 2024 after an 11-year sentence for supporting ISIS, targeted ROTC students in a shooting that killed one and injured two at Old Dominion University.
- The FBI has launched a terrorism investigation into a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, which resulted in one death and two injuries to U.S. Army personnel, confirmed by FBI Director Kash Patel.
- The suspect in the shooting was identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guard member who pleaded guilty in 2016 to providing material support to ISIS, according to the FBI.
- Before the shooting, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh shouted 'Allahu Akbar,' as stated by FBI officials.
- The gunman was subdued by students and law enforcement, an action that helped save lives.
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A former member of the Army National Guard who had spent eight years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State group opened fire on Thursday in a classroom at Old Dominion University in Virginia, before students from the United States Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) subdued and killed him, authorities said. He had shouted “Alla Akbar” before the shooting, which left one dead and two wounded, according to the FBI.
Old Dominion Shooting Is Being Investigated as Act of Terrorism
The FBI is investigating a shooting at Old Dominion University as an act of terrorism after a man entered a classroom filled with ROTC students and shot and killed the leader of the class. Officials say Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former soldier in the Virginia National Guard, is the suspect in the attack. He was previously arrested in 2016 and accused of giving material support to the terror group ISIS. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.
ROTC students subdued Old Dominion gunman, shooting probed as terrorism
Old Dominion University ROTC students subdued a gunman Thursday after he shot and killed a professor at the Virginia university. The shooter injured two other Army service members before students neutralized the attacker. Police identified the victim as Army Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, an Iraq War veteran and department chair at Old Dominion University. (Old Dominion Univerity) Authorities confirmed the gunman died during the confrontation. They said…
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