The 2 injured people are in critical condition, officials said, after a gunman opened fire in the university’s business school building
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAssociated PressPublished: 3:05am, 13 Mar 2026A gunman is dead and two people are hurt after a shooting at Old Dominion University on Thursday morning, the Virginia college said.
ODU said a gunman opened fire in its business school building, injuring two people who were sent to hospital. It was not immediately clear how the shooter died.
The two people injured are in critical condition, said a representative for Sentera Health, the healthcare system that oversees the hospital.
Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Delongchamp, public information officer for the US Army Cadet Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, told Associated Press that the two people wounded are members of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at ODU.
“We will continue to coordinate with the university and law enforcement agencies as they investigate the incident,” Delongchamp said in a brief telephone interview. “There’s still a lot more stuff we have to work out.”
Within about an hour of the shooting, ODU declared that there was no longer a threat on the campus.
The public university in Norfolk cancelled classes and suspended all operations on its main campus until Friday and urged people to avoid the area in and around Constant Hall while emergency officials continued to work. Counselling and food services will remain available.
