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 student the law enforcement officer shot was hospitalized and is expected to be OK, the source said.
The lockdown was prompted by anonymous threats made on social media by a student who had been kicked out of the academy, the source said.
Naval Support Activity Annapolis security and local police responded to the academy grounds at 5:07 p.m., a Navy official said.
At the U, a student was shot by a policeman. S. According to a source, the Naval Academy was under lockdown on Thursday after receiving threats online from a former student.
According to the source, the shooting on the Annapolis, Maryland, campus happened after the midshipmen—the term given to all academy students—took a responding police officer for a threat and hit him with a training parade rifle.
According to the source, the student who was shot by the police officer was taken to the hospital and is anticipated to recover.
Baltimore’s NBC affiliate, WBAL, captured footage of a person being carried on a stretcher to a state police helicopter that was waiting.
According to the source, an anonymous threat posted on social media by a student who had been expelled from the academy caused the lockdown.
The source claims that the student used an IP address to make it appear as though they were on campus even though they weren’t. The source claimed that the student who was thought to have made the threats was at home at the time.
At 5:07 p.m., local law enforcement and Naval Support Activity Annapolis security arrived on the academy grounds. A. according to a Navy official.
According to the Navy official, the person who was hurt and taken by helicopter from the campus was in stable condition Thursday evening.
