© APJalloh was shot dead when he opened fire at Old Dominion University on Thursday, killing an ROTC instructor and injuring two others
The 36-year-old ISIS-linked maniac — who was killed when he opened fire at the Virginia university Thursday — had said he was considering trying to pull off another attack akin to the Fort Hood massacre in 2009 that killed 13 people, the feds said.
He ended up copping a plea to attempting to provide material support to ISIL — and was then sprung from federal custody Dec. 23, 2024, after serving roughly eight years of his 11-year sentence.
The convicted terror plotter received an early release after completing a prison drug-treatment program that lets inmates shave up to a year off their sentences, The Associated Press reported Friday, citing a source familiar with the situation.
But it is unclear why Jalloh would have been allowed the sentence-reducing credit, since terror convicts are typically barred from receiving it. It also was not known why he got another year and a half off on top of that, too.
Jalloh, a former member of the Virginia National Guard, had been 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.
Comment: Basically, this unstable individual was likely recruited by elements within the intelligence community to carry out a terror 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.
He also told the informant that he'd quit the Army National Guard after hearing lectures from infamous radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, who is known for influencing jihadists and was killed by a US drone strike ordered by President Obama in 2011.
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, as he was already on authorities' radar, the feds said. Jalloh was swiftly arrested.
The man who illegally peddled Jalloh the gun he used in Thursday's rampage was arrested by authorities Friday, according to a report.
The seller claimed he'd sold the weapon to the killer about a year before after swiping it from a car in Newport News, Va., the Caledonian Record said.
The man said the shooter claimed he was a delivery driver and needed it for protection, the outlet said.
In Jalloh's previous case, the Justice Department had requested that he 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.
At his 2017 sentencing, a groveling Jalloh spouted off a bunch of apologies in a bid to have his sentence reduced, claiming he had "no plans with that weapon" and that he never intended to harm anyone.
"I'm very, very sorry for what I have done. I did not intend to cause any harm to anyone. And I want to say — I want to say, every time I see any atrocities that ISIS commits, I am disgusted by it because I know this is not what I want to be a part of," he claimed.
"I was in a really bad place, looking for some purpose, and it just really all got out of hand."
Jalloh was repped by his lawyer sister, Fatmatu Jalloh, and another attorney, Joseph Flood, at the time.
Flood had tried to convince the judge wasn't a "radicalized extremist.
"I don't believe that he is a recruiter or a leader. He is clearly a follower," Flood said during the sentencing hearing.
Comment: The perfect patsy to be used by those who want to destabilize the US.
"I think that while the crime is disturbing, it is out of context and it's aberrational to who he really is," the lawyer said.
US District Judge Liam O'Grady ended up slapping Jalloh with an 11-year sentence.
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.
When things are suppose to be a certain way and don't happen.
Means the dark evil forces had a hand in making that way.