A person has been arrested and is dealing with federal charges for allegedly selling the gun used in the lethal taking pictures throughout an ROTC class at Old Dominion University, in accordance to court docket paperwork.
Kenya Micchell Chapman, is charged with making false statements whereas buying a firearm and dealing firearms with out a license.
Prosecutors say the gun was carried Thursday by Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a convicted ISIS supporter who stepped into an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University and opened fireplace.
Chapman’s arrest gives some readability on how investigators imagine Jalloh, a convicted ISIS supporter who’s barred from proudly owning a gun, received round his probation officer and obtained the pistol he used to shoot three individuals contained in the classroom. One of these individuals, teacher Brandon Shah, later died on the hospital.
According to investigators, Jalloh twice requested people inside a classroom to affirm it was an “ROTC event” earlier than opening fireplace. Witnesses reported him shouting “Allahu Akbar” — or “God is greater” — twice earlier than firing at college students. The ROTC members in the room “subdued him” an FBI official stated, and court docket paperwork say that Jalloh was killed earlier than regulation enforcement arrived.
Officials weren’t ready to instantly hint the Glock pistol Jalloh used as a result of the serial quantity had been partially obliterated, court docket paperwork present.
But Jalloh’s cellphone was laying subsequent to his physique, investigators say, and one quantity stood out as an individual he had often contacted the week earlier than the taking pictures: Chapman’s.
Chapman was recognized to regulation enforcement as a result of he was beforehand beneath federal investigation for straw-purchasing firearms, or shopping for a firearm on behalf of one other individual, court docket paperwork say. He was issued a “warning letter” from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and had to write a letter of apology, the paperwork say.
Law enforcement searched his home Friday morning, in accordance to investigators. Chapman first advised brokers that he discovered the gun Jalloh used “in the woods,” investigators say, however later admitted that he stole it roughly one yr in the past. He then bought the weapon to Jalloh for $100 in the previous week.
Chapman advised brokers that he didn’t know Jalloh was a convicted felon, and that Jalloh had advised him he wanted the gun for cover as a supply driver.
This story was up to date with further reporting.
Correction: A earlier model of this submit misstated the kind of gun on the attack. Court paperwork describe the gun as a Glock pistol.