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2026 Old Dominion University shooting

School shooting in Virginia, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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On March 12, 2026, a shooting took place at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The assailant, 36-year-old Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, attacked a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) group, yelling "Allahu Akbar" while opening fire. One ROTC instructor was killed and two ROTC cadets were injured before Jalloh was fatally stabbed as the students subdued him. The shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2026 Old Dominion University shooting” as school shooting in Virginia, US. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dominion, University and shooting can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as school shooting in Virginia, US. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “2026 Old Dominion University shooting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.