A Virginia man has been charged with illegally selling a used Old Dominion rifle
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A day after a man opened fire at Old Dominion University in Virginia, killing one person and injuring two others, a Virginia man has been charged with supplying him with an illegally used firearm.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, was disarmed and shot dead by ROTC students at this university on Thursday after a shooting in a classroom where ROTC instructor Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.
On Friday, Kenya Chapman was charged with making false statements related to the sale of a convicted felon, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Fox News.
Chapman stole a .22 caliber handgun a year before the shooting, and sold it to Jalloh for $100 this week, according to an FBI affidavit.
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Emergency officials gathered outside the Old Dominion University campus after reports of an active shooter Thursday. (Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Jalloh, as a convicted felon, was not allowed to buy or own a gun.
Jalloh pleaded guilty in 2016 to providing material support to the designated terrorist organization, Islamic State, and was sentenced in 2017 to 11 years with credit for time served, and five years of supervised release.
He was released from prison in early December 2024 after completing a drug treatment program that allows inmates to get out of prison a year earlier.
In general, prisoners convicted of terrorism-related crimes are not eligible for early release programs.
Jalloh was left with a blind eye when he carried out a shooting incident on Thursday that left him dead after being defeated by ROTC members at the school.
The FBI said the attack was being investigated as a terrorist attack.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was identified as the shooter at Old Dominion University on Thursday. (AP Photo)
Chapman was also investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2021 for allegedly buying three guns, where a person claims to be buying a gun for himself, but plans to sell it.
All three guns were later found at crime scenes, including the murder, court documents said.
The U.S. Justice Department under the Biden administration declined to prosecute Chapman at the time, instead asking the ATF to issue him with a weed buyer warning letter, according to the affidavit and a senior DOJ source.
Chapman admitted to selling the guns and wrote a letter of apology, the affidavit said.
Jalloh, 36, was an American citizen from Sierra Leone who spent six years in the Virginia National Guard, multiple sources in the organization 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 was at the rank of professional when he left with an honorable discharge.
He served in the 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command as a combat engineer, they said.
Lt. Col. Brandon Shah has been identified as the coach who died in Thursday’s shooting at Old Dominion University. (Old Dominion University)
He was originally arrested on July 3, 2016, after authorities said he tried to help obtain weapons for what he believed would be an ISIS-inspired attack on US soil and separately tried to send money to support ISIS, according to the criminal complaint.
The DOJ said he was forced to leave the US military after he began listening to Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi’s online lectures, adding that Jalloh “glorified” the July 2015 terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which a gunman killed four US Marines and a Navy sailor.
Jalloh also shared that he was thinking of carrying out an attack similar to the attack on Ft. Hood, Texas, in November 2009, which killed 13 people and injured 32 others.
In a letter pleading for leniency to judges before his sentencing, Jalloh said he had now rejected ISIS and hated the way he was “sponsored” by the organization.
“I reject and condemn terrorism and any associated groups, especially ISIL,” he wrote at the time. “I hate how I have allowed myself to be led astray and how ISIL deceives concerned and concerned people like me with their religious propaganda by calling for Islamic unity and the distorted interpretation of selected verses of the Quran.”
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He added, “I feel like a complete fool for accepting such a superficial and dishonest interpretation of Islam, and blindly accepting what I was told.”
Jalloh also said that he “always had and still has a deep respect for the American people and the American values that I am committed to.”
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
