Old Dominion terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh had been previously serving time in federal prison for helping to plot a heinous attack against the US — but he ended up being cut loose early, records show.
The 36-year-old ISIS-linked maniac — who was killed when he opened fire at the Virginia university Thursday — was sprung from federal custody Dec. 23, 2024, after serving roughly eight years of his 11-year sentence.
Jalloh, who was a former member of the Virginia National Guard, was originally sentenced in 2017 after confessing to providing material support to the Islamic State.
His guilty plea came after a three-month sting operation in which Jalloh, then 26, made his plans known to a federal informant, the Justice Department said at the time of his plea deal.
“Jalloh claimed to know how to shoot guns and praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015,” federal prosecutors wrote.
“Jalloh also stated he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood, Texas, in November 2009, which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.”
The feds started probing him after Jalloh, a naturalized US citizen from Sierra Leone, made contact with Islamic State members during a six-month stay in Africa in early 2016.
He later told the FBI informant that the Islamic State group had asked if he wanted to participate in an attack.
The terrorist added that he believed it would be better to plan an attack during the month of Ramadan because that was “100 percent the right thing,” the DOJ said. Ramadan this year ends next week.
When he returned to the US, Jalloh tried and failed to obtain firearms in North Carolina.
He then went to a gun dealership in Virginia, which sold him an assault rifle that had been rendered inoperable before he left with it, thanks to already being on authorities’ radar, the feds said.
Initially, the Justice Department had requested Jalloh serve a 20-year sentence, citing his multiple attempts to join ISIS and his purchase of the weapon, while his lawyers pushed for 6.5 years.
US District Judge Liam O’Grady ended up slapping him with an 11-year sentence.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Jalloh’s prison release was ultimately moved up. Inmates can have time shaved off their sentences for a number of reasons, but it isn’t yet known what happened in his case.
He was still on supervised released at the time of Thursday’s rampage, records show.
News of his prior conviction — and subsequent release — sparked immediate questions as to how a perp with known ties to ISIS was still able to carry out the sickening attack.
“The horrific tragedy that occurred today on ODU’s campus never should have happened,” Rep. Jen Kiggans, who represents the congressional district neighboring the university, said in a statement shortly after the attack.
The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a Post request for comment Friday.
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