Virginia man charged with selling weapon used by Old Dominion university gunman

A time aft a antheral opened occurrence astatine Old Dominion University in Virginia, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and leaving 2 others wounded, a Virginia antheral has been charged with illegally providing him the weapon used.

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, was disarmed and changeable dormant by ROTC students astatine the assemblage connected Thursday aft helium fired connected a schoolroom there, sidesplitting ROTC teacher Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.

On Friday, Kenya Chapman was charged with making mendacious statements related to selling a limb to a convicted felon, according to the transgression ailment obtained by Fox News.

Chapman stole the .22 caliber weapon a twelvemonth earlier the shooting, and sold it to Jalloh for $100 this week, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent.

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Emergency officials stitchery extracurricular Old Dominion University's field aft reports of an progressive shooter connected Thursday.  (Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Jalloh, arsenic a convicted felon, was not allowed to acquisition oregon person a firearm.

Jalloh pleaded blameworthy successful 2016 to providing worldly enactment for a designated violent organization, the Islamic State, and helium was sentenced successful 2017 to 11 years with recognition for clip served, positive 5 years of supervised release.

He was released from situation aboriginal successful December 2024 aft helium completed a cause attraction programme that allows inmates to get retired of situation up to a twelvemonth earlier.

Generally, inmates convicted of terrorism-related offenses aren’t eligible for aboriginal merchandise programs.

Jalloh remained connected supervised merchandise erstwhile helium carried retired the shooting Thursday that near him dormant aft helium was subdued by ROTC members astatine the school.

The FBI said the onslaught is being investigated arsenic terrorism.

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was identified arsenic the shooter astatine Old Dominion University connected Thursday. (AP Photo)

Chapman was besides investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) successful 2021 for allegedly straw purchasing 3 guns, erstwhile a idiosyncratic claims they’re buying a firearm for themselves, but they program to merchantability it.

All 3 guns were aboriginal recovered astatine transgression scenes, including a homicide, tribunal documents said.

The U.S. Department of Justice nether the Biden medication declined to prosecute Chapman astatine the time, alternatively asking the ATF to springiness him a straw purchaser informing letter, according to the affidavit and a elder DOJ source.

Chapman admitted to selling the guns and wrote a missive of apology, the affidavit said.

Jalloh, 36, was a naturalized U.S. national from Sierra Leone who spent six years successful the Virginia National Guard, aggregate national sources confirmed to Fox News.

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A spokesperson with the Virginia National Guard confirmed to Fox News Digital that Jalloh served from April 30, 2009, to April 29, 2015, and helium held the fertile of specializer erstwhile helium near with an honorable discharge. 

He served successful the 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command arsenic a combat engineer, they said.

Lt. Col. Brandon Shah was identified arsenic the teacher killed successful Thursday's deadly shooting astatine Old Dominion University. (Old Dominion University)

He was primitively arrested connected July 3, 2016, aft authorities said helium tried to assistance procure weapons for what helium believed would beryllium an ISIS-inspired onslaught connected U.S. ungraded and separately attempted to nonstop wealth to enactment ISIS, according to the transgression complaint.

The DOJ said helium was compelled to permission the U.S. subject aft helium began listening to the online lectures of Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, adding that Jalloh "praised" the July 2015 violent onslaught successful Chattanooga, Tennessee, when a gunman killed 4 U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor.

Jalloh besides shared that helium had been reasoning astir conducting an onslaught akin to the onslaught astatine Ft. Hood, Texas, successful Nov. 2009, which killed 13 radical and wounded 32 others.

In a missive asking the justice for leniency earlier his sentencing, Jalloh claimed helium present rejected ISIS and hated however helium had been "manipulated" by the organization.

"I cull and deplore terrorism and immoderate groups associated with it, particularly ISIL," helium wrote astatine the time. "I hatred however I allowed myself to beryllium manipulated and however ISIL manipulates troubled and impressionable radical similar maine with their spiritual propaganda by appealing to Islamic solidarity and a skewed mentation of selective verses from the Quran."

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He added, "I consciousness similar a implicit idiot for accepting specified a superficial and dishonest mentation of Islam, and for blindly accepting what I was being told."

Jalloh besides claimed that helium "always had heavy respect and inactive person respect for the American radical and the American values that I pledged to serve."

Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.