(The Center Square) – The gun used at Old Dominion University by a convicted foreign terrorist supporter came from a Virginian who stole it and was dealing firearms without a license, according to his guilty plea.
Kenya Mcchell Chapman, 32, of Smithfield, faces 35 years in prison at his Dec. 18 sentencing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of making false statements during purchases of firearms.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, was subdued and stabbed to death after he committed a terrorist shooting at Old Dominion in Norfolk on March 12. He killed one and wounded two others at an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Class.
Prosecutors say cellphone records show Chapman’s phone number was most frequently called, including minutes before the attack, during the week before Jalloh carried out his plan. Chapman’s residence was searched the day after, and ammunition consistent with that used at Old Dominion was recovered.
The serial number of the firearm was partially altered or obliterated. Lawmen say Chapman stole it from a vehicle in Newport News a year earlier and sold it to Jalloh on March 11.
In 2016, Jalloh was convicted of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
