The man accused of selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, the former National Guardsman who gunned down an Old Dominion University ROTC instructor in a classroom on March 12, is expected to plead guilty in federal court on Friday.
Kenya Mcchell Chapman, the Smithfield man who authorities say sold Jalloh the gun, was charged with dealing firearms without a license related to the March shooting, and three counts from 2021 of making false statements when purchasing a firearm.
The false statement charges from 2021 were initially dropped by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, but were resurfaced this year following Chapman’s alleged involvement in supplying the weapon in the deadly campus shooting…