<\/p>\n\n AP AUDIO: Gunman who injured 2 people at Old Dominion University in Virginia is dead, college says\n <\/p>\n
At Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., sirens blare as Gray Crigger takes cell phone video in the aftermath of a campus shooting, as police run across a lawn. Old Dominion University says a gunman who opened fire at the business school building is dead, and two people were hurt. COURTESY: Gray Crigger.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to coordinate with the university and law enforcement agencies as they investigate the incident,\u201d Delongchamp said in a brief telephone interview. \u201cThere\u2019s still a lot more stuff we have to work out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jalloh: Guard service and Islamic State ties<\/p>\n
The suspected shooter, Jalloh, is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
According to a 2016 FBI affidavit filed in his criminal case, Jalloh told a government informant he quit the Army National Guard after hearing lectures from radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The Virginia Army National Guard confirmed Jalloh served as a specialist from 2009 until 2015, when he was honorably discharged.<\/p>\n
A court affidavit recounts a three-month sting operation in which Jalloh, then 26, said he was thinking about carrying out an attack similar to the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, which left 13 people dead. Authorities launched the 2016 operation after Jalloh made contact with Islamic State members in Africa earlier that year.<\/p>\n
Jalloh later told the informant that the Islamic State group had asked if he wanted to participate in an attack. He tried to donate $500 to the Islamic State, but the money actually went to an account controlled by the FBI, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Jalloh then tried to buy an AR-15 assault rifle from a Virginia gun store but was turned away because he lacked the proper paperwork. The affidavit says he returned the next day and bought a different assault rifle. Prosecutors said the rifle was rendered inoperable before Jalloh left the store, unbeknownst to Jalloh. He was arrested the following day.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department in 2017 requested a 20-year prison sentence for Jalloh, noting that he had made multiple attempts to join the Islamic State and had attempted to acquire a gun to carry out a murder plot in the United States. Jalloh\u2019s lawyers requested a 6\u00bd-year prison sentence and placement in a facility with residential drug treatment for inmates with addiction and substance abuse issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant was fully aware of what he was doing, and the consequences of those actions. His only misgivings seemed to be a fear that he would waver at the critical moment,\u201d prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.<\/p>\n
They added: \u201cBy putting the idea of this murder plot into religious terms, and by suggesting that murdering members of the US military would be a path to heaven, the defendant showed how strongly committed he was to the deadly ideology\u201d of the Islamic State.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Liam O\u2019Grady, an appointee of President George W. Bush, sentenced him instead to 11 years in prison. <\/p>\n
Tragedy on campus<\/p>\n
According to Sentara Health, two of the Old Dominion University victims were transported by ambulance to the Level I trauma center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. One of those patients has passed away. The other remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n
A third person was treated and released from the Sentara Independence free-standing emergency department in Virginia Beach after arriving in a personal vehicle, Sentara Health said.<\/p>\n
Within about an hour of the shooting, ODU declared that there was no longer a threat on the campus.<\/p>\n
The public university in Norfolk canceled classes and suspended all operations on its main campus through Friday and urged people to avoid the area in and around Constant Hall while emergency officials continued to work. Counseling and food services will remain available.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our campus community is my top priority,\u201d Hemphill wrote. \u201cWe are deeply committed to safeguarding all Monarchs and ensuring a secure learning, living, and working environment at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on the social platform X that it had agents on scene supporting the response.<\/p>\n
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said in social media posts that she was monitoring the situation and that \u201cstate support is being mobilized\u201d to help ODU. She didn\u2019t provide specifics.<\/p>\n
Located in coastal Norfolk, Old Dominion University has about 24,000 students, 17,500 of them undergraduates. The school has around 240 degree programs, and is known for its research spending and doctoral programs. Nearly 30% of its students are military-affiliated, according to the university website. The area is also home to Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval station in the world. <\/p>\n
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Associated Press journalists Allen G. Breed in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Michael Biesecker in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROTC students in an Old Dominion University classroom subdued and killed the shooter who killed one person and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3508,3514,61,3511,3515,434,3513,933,50,624,439,8,2591,3512,3507,166,3510,3509,2871,9,436,7,2464,54,921],"class_list":{"0":"post-4280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-abigail-spanberger","9":"tag-anwar-al-awlaki","10":"tag-ap-top-news","11":"tag-ashraf-nubani","12":"tag-brian-hemphill","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-dominique-evans","15":"tag-education","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-george-w-bush","18":"tag-gun-violence","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-islamic-state-group","21":"tag-jimmy-delongchamp","22":"tag-kash-patel","23":"tag-law-enforcement","24":"tag-liam-ogrady","25":"tag-mohamed-bailor-jalloh","26":"tag-new-orleans-truck-attack","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-shootings","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation","31":"tag-u-s-news","32":"tag-virginia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116218437488958297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}