A midshipman who dropped out of the U.S. Naval Academy in 2024 was charged last week with threatening a ‘mass execution’ of his former classmates on a social app. The threat caused a school-wide lockdown that nearly ended in tragedy when a responding police officer shot a current student during a chaotic scuffle.

Jackson Fleming, 23, of Chesterton, Indiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 8 with one count of “interstate communications with a threat to injure” against the Annapolis, Maryland school, which he left midway through his junior year, according to local media coverage. Fleming posted on September 11 on the social app that he would be “carrying out the mass execution of my peers in a couple.”

Fleming entered the school with the class of 2025 and left as a junior,

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