A National Guardsman turned ISIS terrorist was named as the gunman killed after opening fire at Old Dominion University.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, opened fire inside the Norfolk, Virginia, school on Thursday morning, sources confirmed to several news outlets.
Jalloh, a former National Guard soldier, stormed into a classroom and asked if it was an Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) class, The New York Post reported.
After a person in the room confirmed that it was, he opened fire on the professor, sources told outlet. A student then stabbed Jalloh to death.
Sources told the post that the professor, a retired military officer, was rushed to hospital where he later died.
Jalloh, a U.S. citizen originally from Sierra Leone, was released from prison in 2024 after being caught attempting to hand information to ISIS and ISIL in 2015.
He was sentenced to 11 years behind bars in 2017 which was to be followed by five years supervised release.
Old Dominion University Police Chief Garrett Shelton said officers responded after receiving reports that people were being shot in one of the classrooms.
Officials confirmed on Thursday that two other victims remain injured after the shooting. One of the victims brought themselves to a hospital.
The two surviving victims appear to be in stable condition and added that authorities are ‘very early’ in the investigation.
Lt. Col. Jimmy Delongchamp, public information officer for the U.S. Army Cadet Command at Fort Knox, said the two people wounded are members of ROTC.
He said: ‘We will continue to coordinate with the university and law enforcement agencies as they investigate the incident. There’s still a lot more stuff we have to work out.’
Within about an hour of the shooting, ODU declared that there was no longer a threat on the campus.
The public university in Norfolk canceled classes and suspended all operations on its main campus through Friday and urged people to avoid the area of the shooting.
In a message to the university community, ODU President Brian Hemphill said the school faced a tragedy on campus.
He expressed gratefulness for the swift emergency response and thoughts and prayers to those impacted.
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Hemphill said: ‘We are deeply committed to safeguarding all Monarchs and ensuring a secure learning, living, and working environment at all times.’
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on the social platform X that it had agents on scene supporting the response.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said that she was monitoring the situation and that ‘state support is being mobilized’ to help ODU. She didn´t provide specifics.
FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that personnel from his agency are working with the local authorities who responded to the shooting.
