INCREDIBLE: Heroic ROTC Cadets Recount Taking Down Terrorist at Outdated Dominion College
About one month ago, a convicted ISIS supporter named Mohamed Jalloh carried out a shooting at Old Dominion University.
He targeted an ROTC classroom and tragically killed the instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.
But, it could have been much worse if not for the brave actions taken by Lt. Col. Shah and several of the cadets that day.
As you may recall, the terrorist was taken down by ROTC students who essentially stabbed and beat him to death.
Now, those heroic cadets are sharing their own, personal accounts of what happened.
Several of the students credited the bravery of their teacher for saving them.
You have to watch this:
MUST WATCH: ROTC Cadets from Old Dominion University recount the brave sacrifice of Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, who sacrificed himself to protect others from a radical Islamic shooter.
Brandon Shah is a HEROpic.twitter.com/eHZ6kLOBFL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2026
For those who prefer to read, Fox News summed up the cadets’ stories:
Students involved in the incident reflected on that day, saying it was a day like any other.
During the class period, a student said a man they didn’t recognize, later identified as Jalloh, walked into the classroom and repeatedly and nervously asked if this class was ROTC.
“I wasn’t thinking about what that question really meant,” said Cadet Louis Ancheta.
As Shah confirmed the class was ROTC, Cadet Wesley Myers, who was in class that day, said Jalloh shouted “Allahu Akbar” and began shooting at Shah.
Instincts immediately kicked in and Shah lunged toward the gunman, according to the students.
As Shah wrestled with the gunman, Ancheta leaped into action, taking a pocket-knife and repeatedly stabbing Jalloh.
“If he didn’t lunge at him, I wouldn’t be here right now,” said Cadet Jah-Ira Utarte, who was sitting in the front row of the classroom at the time, said in an interview released by the Department of War. “There’s a possibility he could’ve turned his gun and I could’ve been next.”
Ancheta said during the fighting between his professor and the gunman, he was shot by a stray bullet.
“It really didn’t feel like it hit me,” Ancheta said. He continued to attempt to subdue the gunman alongside Shah and other cadets jumped in.
Once the gun was away from Jalloh, Cadet Jeremy Rawlinson said they immediately switched to combat care.
“It just was what I felt I had to do in that moment, to get there and do what I could,” Myers said. “It’s different when it’s not a mannequin and it’s your friend.”
Cadet Samuel Reineberg said he was “like a laser beam” to Shah, who had been shot in the chest.
It wasn’t until later that day, the students found out about Shah’s death.
“There was definitely a sense of, ‘could we have done more?’” Cadet Oshea Bego said.
Shah is regarded as a hero among his students.
“[Shah] used the last of his strength to tackle that guy and it gave us just enough time that we needed to be able to get on [the gunman],” Rawlinson said.
“One of the last things he told my mom when they met this summer was that he would take care of me. He followed through on that word,” Bego said.
Wow.
Lt. Col. Shah is the very picture of heroism. He sacrificed himself for his students.
It also speaks volumes about how good of a teacher he was that his students were able to quickly apply their training and stop a terrorist — without the use of firearms, no less!
Absolute freaking heroes. These guys are everything it means to be an American.
— Disinformed Citizen (@PHQ420) April 10, 2026
God Bless these all-American heroes!