Update on the two terrorist attacks
[NOTE: See this earlier post of mine today for background on the attacks.]
The Old Dominion shooter attacked an ROTC class, as I described in my previous post. Now the victim who died has been identified:
Lt Colonel Brandon Shah was identified as the person killed in the deadly shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia. …
[The killer] reportedly entered a classroom inside ODU’s Constant Hall and asked if it was a ROTC class. Upon getting confirmation, he launched the attack, shooting the professor several times. The FBI said during a press conference that Jalloh shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before opening fire. …
Brandon A. Shah is a native of Virginia. He served as Professor of Military Science (PMS) at ODU’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). Shah enlisted into the Army in 2003 as an Aviation Operations Specialist. … Shah’s service included Active Duty Army, Army Reserves, and Virginia Army National Guard and he was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and a rotation to Atlantic Resolve. Shah had a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and a Military Science Minor from ODU, an MBA from the University of Georgia, and an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas.
RIP.
I wonder whether the campus of Old Dominion is gun-free, because the killer Jalloh was fatally stabbed by one of the ROTC students:
A heroic ROTC student fatally stabbed the crazed ISIS-linked gunman who opened fire inside an Old Dominion University classroom Thursday, preventing further carnage, law enforcement sources said. …
“The shooter is now deceased thanks to a group of brave students who stepped in and subdued him – actions that undoubtedly saved lives along with the quick response of law enforcement,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
The perp Jalloh was apparently a naturalized citizen, and therefore his previous conviction for ISIS support did not allow the US to deport him – unless he had lied about his ISIS leanings (or something else that is non-trivial) when he was naturalized. Ted Cruz has tried several times, beginning in 2014, to pass a law that would allow such citizens to lose their citizenship, but it never passed.
In the Michigan attack, which featured a car ramming a synagogue and in which the perp also died, there has been no official identification. Rumor has it, however (for what it’s worth), that he was Ayman Ghazaleh of Dearborn Heights, a naturalized citizen from Lebanon who claimed that relatives in that country had recently been killed by Israelis. As I said, none of this is confirmed. The article also said the car was loaded with explosives, which could explain the fire.
If the above turns out to be true, I have little doubt that much of the left and so-called “woke right” will try to justify the attack and/or make excuses for it as a retaliation for Israel’s supposed “genocide.” But whatever the facts turn out to be, the Trump-haters will blame Trump, the root of all the evil in the world.
What the crazy people on the left or the right will not be able to explain is what a Reform Jewish congregation in suburban Michigan has to do with Israel and Gaza.
Kate:
That’s too logical.
@Kate:What the crazy people on the left or the right will not be able to explain is what a Reform Jewish congregation in suburban Michigan has to do with Israel and Gaza.
I’ve never seen that they have any trouble explaining it–to them Judaism and Zionism are worldwide conspiracies. Such people have long experience straining at gnats and swallowing camels.
These incidents would have turned out much more tragically if the intended victims had not been armed. Yet many left leaning states are passing even more laws to disarm their citizens. The latest is Virginia. The moderates, who did not vote in the last election, are reaping what they sowed.
DHS via X.com Confirms ID, The synagogue attacker has been identified: Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Lebanese national who first entered the U.S. in 2011 on an IR1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen. He was naturalized into a U.S. citizen in 2016 during the Obama administration.
Ghazali was born in Lebanon in 1985 and entered the US in 2011. He became a naturalized US citizen in February 2016 under the Obama Administration.
I believe it’s been reported the Michigan shooter lived in…wait for it…Dearborn.
The attacker was reportedly angered by recent deaths of some of his relatives in Lebanon in an Israeli attack. Sounds like he had Hezbollah connections. The mayor of Dearborn, whose first name is “Mo,” urges all his citizens to be vigilant during these “sacred last days of Ramadan.” I hardly think they are the ones who need vigilance.
Correction: The quote is from the mayor of Dearborn Heights, where the attacker lived, not Dearborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-fbi-agents-carry-out-search-warrant-believed-connection-synagogue-attacker
The democrat response is wonderful. they are not blaming Mo but rather guns which are inanimate objects. Who knew, inanimate objects have agency and they can murder you.
I noted that the perp was stabbed.
Here is the Virginia DA blaming “gun absolutism” for the attack and death.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-backed-da-sparks-backlash-after-blaming-old-dominion-on-pro-gun-lawmakers-f-right-off
l had to check… which “gun absolutism” is he blaming? The gun control absolutism or the gun ownership rights one? Ah, he’s a Soros lefty. So naturally, he is stupid enough to believe a few more gun control laws would have disarmed the perp.
TommyJay
Disagree. The DA is smart enough to know his constituents are that stupid.
ODU is supposed to be a weapon-free campus. There is speculation that Norfolk’s leftist commonwealth’s attorney might charge the student who stabbed the shooter with what may have been a pocket knife, the only weapon at hand.
Kate
They’re Jewish. That’s enough.
“I wonder whether the campus of Old Dominion is gun-free”
Yes.
https://www.odu.edu/bov/gun-and-weapon-regulation
I live in Norfolk so this is local to me. My son is an ODU alumni and I took some classes there while I was in the Navy.
Naturalized citizenship should be probationary for life, and may be revoked if the subject commits an egregious crime, such as a felony, especially murder or manslaughter.
Also, any illegal immigrant (note the distinction) who commits a violent felony may be summarily executed upon review of credible evidence, such as surveillance video or body cams. Sentence may be carried out on the spot.
Yeah, I’m a bit hard over on this kind of thing.
ODU may have a liability problem. Obviously, they were not a gun free zone since Mo had a gun there and they were not a safe place since the students that were Mo’s jihad targets were obviously POed and rushed Mo and stabbed him over twenty times. I’m surprised the DA hasn’t prosecuted the students.
naybe not spanberger, but not for lack for ttying,
https://www.newenglishreview.org/democrats-to-attend-prayer-service-at-dar-al-hijrah-mosque/
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/10/06/abigail-spanberger-worked-at-va-based-saudi-funded-islamic-saudi-academy-post-911-n2194791
one thinks of norfolk as much more of a navy town, how did they end up with a fatehi, as da,
“one thinks of norfolk as much more of a navy town, how did they end up with a fatehi, as da,”
Because Norfolk is populated primarily by the lower income denizens of the region. Most who can afford it move to Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, or Suffolk. The people who aren’t on the government dole who stay in Norfolk tend to be liberal “gentry” who live in upscale downtown condos or the refurbished turn of the century homes in Ghent. Edit: Turn of the last century…probably should have phrased it “100+ year old homes…”
You might think that the vast numbers of presumably conservative military people in town might make a difference, except that most military people stationed here aren’t residents here and can’t vote in state or local elections.
When I was active duty, even though I was stationed here for 13 of my 21 year career and purchased a home when it became obvious I would never escape, I still maintained my TN residency until I retired and had to switch to VA.
Why? No vehicle scams…er…inspections…on cars with TN plates. Much lower registration fees and no personal property taxes on vehicles, and, more importantly, no state income tax.
Because I’m kind of hard-headed, I still live in Norfolk, where my vote essentially doesn’t count because it’s one Republican drop in a liberal democrat bucket…most military retirees, as I mentioned, move somewhere more in alignment with their political views.
The really smart ones flee the state immediately following the conclusion of their retirement ceremony. Well…to be honest…we’re talking sailors here…most of them wait until after the retirement party that follows the formal ceremony…but you get my drift.
The end result is that Norfolk consists of 25,000 rich liberals. 25,000 middle class conservatives, a smattering of middle class liberals, 100,000 “liberals” who primarily vote liberal because it gets them more “free” stuff, and 80,000 military people who couldn’t vote if they wanted to (all numbers approximate).
If we say “anti-semitic” a bunch of times really fast, will people think it’s renegade Baptists?