The institution in Maryland was placed on lockdown after a former student made threats online that appeared as though they were on campus, a source said.
A law enforcement officer shot a student at the U.S. Naval Academy on Thursday during a lockdown that was prompted by online threats from someone who had been kicked out of the institution, a source said.
The shooting on the Annapolis, Maryland, campus occurred after the midshipmen, which is what all students at the academy are called, mistook a responding law enforcement officer for a threat and struck the officer with a parade rifle used for training, the source said.
The student the law enforcement officer shot was hospitalized and is expected to be OK, the source said.
Shouldn’t MPs be the ones at the Naval Academy? Why would a regular, plain clothes, cop even be there?
There are federal officers and contracted security personnel on many bases. Additionally, in a domestic threat situation, sometimes they coordinate with local law enforcement. There was a false alarm on the air force academy about ten years ago and cspd, along with the sheriff’s office, were part of the clearing effort.