NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! For the first time, the courageous students who helped stop an active shooter—responsible for killing a cherished professor and community member at Old Dominion University—are sharing their story and recounting the terrifying events of that day. Mohamed Jalloh, previously convicted of supplying material support to the Islamic State terror group, opened fire on campus on Thursday, March 12, killing one person and wounding two others. Officers arrived and pronounced Jalloh dead at the scene that day. Beloved professor of military science Lt. Col. Brandon Shah has been killed. FBI Special Agent in Charge Dominique Evans informed reporters that the students present during the incident “subdued” the gunman. ODU GUNMAN WHO KILLED ROTC INSTRUCTOR HAD PRIOR ISIS CONVICTION, WAS RELEASED EARLY. Students caught up in the incident recalled that day as just an ordinary one. While class was underway, a student noted that an unfamiliar man—later identified as Jalloh—entered the classroom and anxiously asked multiple times if it was the ROTC class. “I wasn’t considering the true implication of that question,” Cadet Louis Ancheta remarked. VIRGINIA MAN CHARGED WITH SELLING WEAPON USED BY OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY GUNMAN. Shah verified the class was ROTC, after which Cadet Wesley Myers—who was present—stated that Jalloh yelled “Allahu Akbar” and started firing at Shah. Shah’s instincts took over, prompting him to charge the shooter, per student accounts. While Shah grappled with the gunman, Ancheta jumped in, using a pocketknife to stab Jalloh multiple times. VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS HOLD FIRM ON DHS FUNDING STANCE AMID ISIS-LINKED ODU SHOOTING, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLING. “If he hadn’t lunged at him, I wouldn’t be here right now,” Cadet Jah-Ira Utarte—who was seated in the front row of the classroom at the time—said in an interview released by the Department of War. “There’s a chance he might’ve turned his gun on me, and I could’ve been next.”
