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Virginia's governor identified the person killed in the attack as Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw, chair of Old Dominion's Military Science Department.

Two other people were wounded.

The FBI says 36-year-old Mohamed Baylor Jalaw came to the ROTC classroom before 11 a.m.

Thursday and opened fire.

Members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps class wrestled him to the ground.

Jalaw was found dead.

DeLaw pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS in 2016.

He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was released in 2024.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh in Norfolk.

This neighborhood has transformed.

NPR has obtained documents that include a series of emails that detail the ship's effort to grapple with the breakdowns on board the USS Gerald R. Ford.

The carrier has had problems since it first deployed in 2023.

Emails between departments show those problems got worse after the carrier left its home port in Norfolk in June.

Parts of the toilet system have gone down for hours while the crew tries to isolate what's wrong with the system.

The General Accountability Office reported on the design flaws in 2020 before the carrier was finished.

While the carrier remains in the Caribbean, the Navy says the problem has not affected operational readiness.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh.

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The new ships would be larger than the current generation of destroyers and cruisers.

They would be armed with everything from sea-based nuclear weapons and lasers to the 16-inch guns used by battleships of the Second World War.