Man Accused Of Selling ISIS-Inspired Shooter Stolen Gun Was Caught Doing Same Thing Under Biden

The Department of Justice charged a Virginia man Friday for allegedly selling a stolen firearm to the ISIS-inspired Old Dominion University shooter after authorities previously caught him illegally purchasing firearms during the Biden administration but declined to prosecute.

Authorities say 36-year-old Mohamed Jalloh walked into a classroom at the Virginia campus, asked if it was an ROTC class, and then began shooting, killing an instructor and injuring two students. Federal prosecutors charged 32-year-old Kenya Chapman with dealing in firearms without a license in connection with the March 12 shooting and with three counts of making false statements during firearm purchases, according to a Justice Department press release.

Federal investigators previously caught Chapman straw purchasing firearms during the Biden administration. In 2021, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Newport News Police Department investigated Chapman after three guns he purchased were quickly recovered from crime scenes, including two tied to a homicide and another from a drunk-in-public incident. However, authorities issued him only a warning letter after he admitted to the purchases.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi criticized the prior handling of the case involving Jalloh.

“The Biden Department of Justice declined to prosecute this man and let him off easy with a warning,” Bondi said. “Left-wing soft-on-crime policies cost lives — but this Department of Justice doesn’t tolerate crime, we punish it.”

Court documents state that Jalloh had been legally barred from possessing a firearm because of a prior felony conviction tied to an attempt