Overview
- A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Indiana charged Jackson Elliot Fleming, 23, with interstate communications containing a threat to injure, carrying a potential five-year sentence.
- Prosecutors say Fleming posted from Chesterton, Indiana, writing that he would carry out a "mass execution" of his peers on the location-based, anonymous app Jodel.
- The post prompted a campuswide lockdown at the Naval Academy during which a midshipman was shot in the shoulder and a member of the naval security force suffered minor injuries, with both treated and released.
- Court records remain largely sealed, prosecutors have not disclosed how the online threat was traced or any motive, and no trial date has been set; Fleming is free on a $20,000 bond.
- Fleming attended the Academy from mid-2021 until leaving in January 2024, and his attorney, Jonathan Bedi, says he plans to contest the charge.