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.
Man, that cadet rocks, they put a parade rifle to use to combat who they perceived as the active shooter threat. Think about the balls that took, they had to make that choice in a split second and they chose to take action in defense of others with a fucking parade rifle. They took an M1 Garand to work, even after it’s barrel was drilled.
Mad respect, F7, 8/10