The FBI has opened a terrorism investigation into a shooting yesterday at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, that killed one person and injured two others, both US Army personnel, FBI officials said.
The gunman, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to federal charges of providing material support to terrorists and was released from prison in 2024, was killed shortly after opening fire, FBI officials said.
They said the suspect died at the hands of a group of Reserve Officer Training Corps students who stepped in and subdued him.
He was not shot, FBI special agent Dominique Evans told an afternoon news conference. CNN reported that the suspect opened fire after walking into a classroom and asking if it was an ROTC class.
“Our Joint Terrorism Task Force is fully engaged, embedded with local authorities, and providing all resources necessary,” FBI Director Kash Patel said earlier on social media.
A law enforcement official identified the suspect as Mohamed Jalloh.
Two victims were transported to a hospital where one died, while a third person also believed to be a victim was treated at another hospital, according to Old Dominion Chief of Police Garrett Shelton.
All three were affiliated with the university, he said.
A suspect crashed his truck into the hallway of a Detroit-area synagogue where children were attending preschool yesterday and was shot dead in a confrontation with security personnel, with no one else seriously injured, authorities said.
The attack unfolded during a recent surge in US antisemitic incidents and in a period of heightened security concerns around Jewish and Muslim places of worship since US and Israeli forces launched air strikes on Iran on February 28.
All 140 students at Temple Israel’s early childhood centre are safe, the synagogue said.
Antisemitic incidents have spiked in recent years in the US, with anti-Jewish incidents accounting for nearly two-thirds of 5,300-plus religiously motivated hate crimes since February 2024, according to FBI data.
“Antisemitism has no place in Michigan and cannot be tolerated,” Michigan’s attorney general Dana Nessel said in a statement.
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