A man previously convicted of providing material support to a terrorist group has been identified as the person responsible for a shooting at a Virginia college Thursday that left one person dead and two injured.
The gunman, identified by an FBI spokesman as Mohammed Bailor Jalloh, 36, was also killed. He opened fire in an Old Dominion University classroom, leaving one person dead and two injured, authorities said.
The mortally wounded victim has not been identified. U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said the two people injured at the Norfolk university were Army personnel.
FBI officials said the shooting is being investigated as an act terrorism. Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the agency’s Norfolk field office, said that he shouted “Allahu Akbar” and was subdued by students who “rendered him no longer alive.”
Jalloh served in the Virginia National Guard from 2009 to 2015 as a combat engineer, military officials said. He
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