Posted on 09/12/25
| News Source: Pikesville Patch
Annapolis, MD - Sept. 12, 2025 - A midshipman was shot during a lockdown Thursday evening at the U.S. Naval Academy, the congresswoman representing Annapolis confirmed.
Reports of an active shooter on the Annapolis campus, known as the Yard, sent the school into lockdown at 5:07 p.m. There was no active shooter at the Academy, but the incident sparked a wave of misinformation and sent security on a sweep.
U.S. Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-District 3) said Friday morning that the midshipman was shot in the shoulder while law enforcement searched every building at the Academy.
A Maryland State Police Aviation command helicopter flew the injured midshipman to the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Elfreth said. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Elfreth said the Naval Academy is investigating the incident and the lessons it taught.
A flurry of threats struck college campuses Thursday on the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The threats also came a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a university in Utah. Maryland leaders condemned the political violence.
Maryland Matters reported that House Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County) and State Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) both received threats to their homes on Thursday. Nobody was hurt in either instance.
"Tensions are so high, and I just want to ask that we all take a moment to breath," Elfreth said in a Friday morning video filmed outside the Academy. "Try to see the good in everybody else. … We are better than this as a country."