A man with alleged links to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) this Thursday carried out a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia (United States), an attack in which One person has died and two others have been injured.
The FBI has reported that the attacker has also died after being subdued by a group of students and killed by the police, and has pointed out the case as “an act of terrorism.”
The perpetrator, identified as Mohamed Jalloh, He pleaded guilty in 2016 to federal charges of providing material support to terrorists and was released in 2024, according to reports. Reuters.
In a press conference, authorities explained that the case should be investigated as an act of terrorism because during the shooting the attacker screamed repeatedly. “Allah Akbar” (“God is the greatest”, in Arabic).
Jalloh, 36, is originally from Sierra Leone and between 2009 and 2015 he would have been a member of the United States National Guardaccording to the chain Fox News.
According to Virginia police, the two people injured and the person who died during the attack were students in a military training program.
This same Thursday, a shooting also occurred at a synagogue near Detroit (Michigan), when a man armed with a rifle rammed his vehicle into the temple and was killed by the police, with no other fatalities reported.
The authorities have so far not linked these two events with alleged reprisals to the war that the United States and Israel are maintaining against Iran.
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