Gun thug busted for peddling stolen Glock to Old Dominion killer for measly $100 profit: feds
A Virginia man was busted Friday for swiping a gun from a car and peddling it for a measly $100 profit to Mohamed Jalloh — who then used it in the Old Dominion University terror shooting, authorities said.
Accused illicit gun-seller Kenya Chapman even pulled out a $100 bill to show investigators that’s what he made on the transaction, although he claimed he had no idea the Jalloh was already a felon convicted of a past terror-related crime, according to court papers.
Chapman was charged with illegally selling the .22 Glock pistol to Jalloh.
After Chapman’s arrest Friday morning — the day after Jalloh killed an ROTC leader and wounded two others before dying in his college rampage — the gun seller told federal agents he had stolen the handgun from a parked car in Newport News, Va., last year, court papers said.
The weapons peddler then claimed that he sold the pistol to Jalloh after the killer told him he needed the gun for “protection” in his job as a delivery driver, according to a sworn account from an agent at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Chapman, who was held without bail after making his first appearance in Virginia federal court Friday, has been on the feds’ radar for years, court papers reveal.
The gun smuggler previously admitted to selling two guns recovered from the scene of a Newport News homicide in September 2021 — firearms that had been used by both the victim and the shooter, court papers said.
He also provided a handgun to a someone that was arrested in June 2021 for being drunk in public, an ATF agent wrote in a sworn affidavit.
Yet despite Chapman admitting to “straw purchasing” those three firearms — meaning buying them himself and then flipping them — he got off with a slap on the wrist at the time.
The ATF required him only to write a “letter of apology” and sent the admitted gun smuggler a toothless warning later, the agent wrote.
“Chapman has not been convicted of a felony,” the affidavit read.
Jalloh, who was a former member of the Virginia National Guard, was killed at the scene of Thursday’s carnage when a heroic ROTC cadet at the Virginia school jumped into action and stabbed the killer to death after the crazed suspect gunned down the class instructor, law enforcement sources said.
Chapman’s court-appointed lawyer, Michael Tagliabue, declined to comment Friday.
