Feds arrest man who allegedly sold gun to Old Dominion shooter

Federal authorities have arrested a Virginia man accused of unlawfully promoting a firearm to the previous Nationwide Guardsman who authorities mentioned killed an teacher and injured two college students in an ROTC class at Outdated Dominion College on Thursday, in response to newly unsealed courtroom information.

Kenya Chapman was charged with false statements and illegal firearms dealing offenses in a felony criticism on Friday for his alleged sale of a Glock 44 .22 caliber gun to Mohamed Jalloh, who was beforehand convicted in 2016 of trying to offer materials help to ISIS — a federal felony that despatched him to jail and barred him from having the ability to legally buy or possess firearms. 

Chapman appeared in federal courtroom Friday afternoon and was ordered detained forward of his subsequent look March 17. He has not but entered a plea. His court-appointed public defender declined to remark. 

Jalloh opened fireplace Thursday on a category of ROTC members at ODU on Thursday morning, authorities mentioned. Simply earlier than he started capturing, college students reported that he shouted or said, “Allah Akbar,” in response to FBI Particular Agent Dominique Evans of the Norfolk discipline workplace. 

Different college students then subdued and killed Jalloh, the FBI official mentioned at a information convention Thursday afternoon.

Sources instructed ABC Information one of many college students fatally stabbed Jalloh.

The FBI is at present investigating the capturing as an act of terrorism, Evans mentioned.  

College students on the Norfolk, Virginia, campus described the terrifying moments when the gunfire broke out in Fixed Corridor on Thursday morning.

“Some individuals had been hiding in rooms, individuals had been occurring high of the parking storage, hiding underneath the vehicles,” mentioned Chris Lathon, a senior, who was within the constructing throughout the capturing, although not within the room.

Bryce Patterson, junior at ODU, mentioned: “I’ve by no means anticipated one thing like this to occur in a campus the place I used to be going. Yeah, just a bit bit shocked. It is identical to, I do not know, I’ve no phrases.”

A newly unsealed felony criticism reveals new details about Jalloh, his interactions together with his court-assigned probation officer and different particulars from his background main as much as Thursday’s capturing.

In accordance with the criticism, Jalloh was taking on-line courses at Outdated Dominion College this semester and his probation officer had been instructed by Jalloh that he was residing at a residence in Sterling, Virginia, together with his sister.

The probation officer’s final reported go to with Jalloh was Nov. 17 of final yr, the criticism says. 

Investigators have obtained CCTV footage displaying Jalloh park his automobile on campus yesterday at roughly 9:40  a.m. earlier than the capturing. 

Jalloh, a former member of the Military Nationwide Guard, was sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2017 and launched in December of 2024, in response to Bureau of Prisons information. He was launched early as a result of finishing a substance abuse remedy program, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson instructed ABC Information.

When he pleaded responsible in 2016, Jalloh admitted he had communicated with a member of ISIS who was situated abroad, who launched him to a person within the U.S. who was really an FBI confidential informant.

The ISIS member was believed to be actively plotting an assault and believed Jalloh would help the informant in carrying it out, in response to his responsible plea.

Throughout one assembly with the FBI informant, Jalloh was requested a couple of timeline for an operation and commented that it was higher to plan an assault for the month of Ramadan, courtroom information say. 

Prosecutors had really helpful Jalloh serve 20 years in jail.

ABC Information’ Pierre Thomas contributed to this report.