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Brave ROTC students credited with stopping deadly classroom shooting at Old Dominion
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Brave ROTC students credited with stopping deadly classroom shooting at Old Dominion

CBS News·Faris Tanyos·6 months ago
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By Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast. Read Full Bio March 12, 2026 / 10:47 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Officials praised the brave actions of ROTC students who confronted a gunman Thursday after he opened fire in a classroom on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, killing one person and injuring two others.  CBS News learned that one of the students in the classroom killed the gunman with a knife.  The FBI identified the suspect as 36-year-old Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Virginia National Guardsman who had served several years in federal prison for trying to support the terror group ISIS. Thursday's shooting is being investigated as terrorism, FBI officials said.…

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