Overview
- Gunfire broke out inside Constant Hall around 10:50 a.m. on March 12 at Old Dominion University's Norfolk campus, and the attacker was killed at the scene.
- The FBI is investigating the incident as terrorism after officials said the assailant repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar."
- Agents named the suspect as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who previously pleaded guilty to attempting to support ISIS and was imprisoned from 2017 until his release in December 2024.
- Authorities reported one civilian dead and two others injured, with a third person self-transporting for treatment and later discharged from a Sentara facility.
- University and Norfolk police, ATF and the FBI responded as ODU suspended campus operations and confirmed that two of the injured were Army ROTC cadets.