FBI investigates ODU shooting that left two dead as a terrorist attack
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One person is dead and two more were injured in a shooting attack at Old Dominion University that is being investigated as a terrorist attack, FBI officials confirmed Thursday.
Dominique Evans, the special agent in charge of the Norfolk FBI field office, confirmed the shooter was Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guardsman who pleaded guilty to plotting a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and was sentenced to prison in 2017.
Evans confirmed that a group of Army ROTC students in the room subdued and killed Jalloh before police arrived. She declined to comment about whether Jalloh had targeted ROTC members.
Officials have not formally released information about the victims’ identifications.
Jalloh, who was honorably discharged from the Army National Guard in 2015, pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring with a member of ISIL, a decentralized terro…
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