Ex-midshipman charged with threat following Naval Academy active-shooter scare

An ex-midshipman from Indiana has been charged with making a threat across state lines related to the lockdown last week at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Jackson Fleming, 23, of Chesterton, Indiana, was arrested on suspicion of sending an online threat through a social media app concerning the Naval Academy, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Indiana announced Tuesday.

Federal court records in Indiana show Jackson Elliot Fleming, formerly of the Class of 2025, faces a single count of making an interstate threat. He was arrested Friday, and is scheduled for a detention hearing next week.

The threat against the Naval Academy set off panic and confusion and resulted in a midshipman mistakenly engaging a law enforcement officer and being shot and wounded. Online social media chatter suggested a shooter on the academy’s Annapolis campus was posing as law enforcement.

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