[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.