Current midshipman shot by law enforcement during response to threat.

A former U.S. Naval Academy midshipman has been charged in federal court with making a threat across state lines related to a lockdown and shooting at the military college in Maryland last week , the U.S. attorney’s office in Indiana said Tuesday.

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Jackson Fleming, 23, was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending an online threat through a social media application concerning the academy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana said in a news release. Fleming, of Chesterton, Indiana, was charged with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate communication, the release said.

Jonathan Bedi, Fleming's attorney, wrote in an

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