A Chesterton man’s threat to the U.S. Naval Academy that led to a lockdown in September is detailed in a recent court filing.

Jackson Fleming, 22, was formally indicted Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Indiana with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate communication. His next hearing is Oct. 16.

“Honestly not that surprised I’ll be carrying out the mass execution of my peers in a couple,” he wrote Sept. 11 in Jodel, an anonymous app used by midshipmen, filings allege.

Fleming changed his location to the Annapolis area from Chesterton.

Defense lawyer Jonathan Bedi said in court during a Sept. 22 hearing that federal prosecutors were alleging it was a “specific reaction to Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” not in retaliation for getting kicked out

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