Ohio student indicted after allegedly threatening ‘to Kirk’ students at pro-life booth

A Butler County grand jury has indicted a 19-year-old Miami University student in Oxford, Ohio, accused of posting an online threat that invoked Charlie Kirk’s assassination and targeted students staffing a pro-life booth on campus.

The grand jury indicted Alixandra Patterson Nov. 10, according to a report by Cincinnati’s CBS affiliate WKRC, published by Dayton 24/7 NOW. She faces 14 counts: one count each of making a terroristic threat and inducing panic, four counts of aggravated menacing, and eight counts of telecommunications harassment, FOX19 reported.

According to court papers cited by WKRC, Patterson allegedly posted on Oct. 28, “how many dining dollars to kirk the anti-abortion table in Armstrong,” in the “Miami Ohio” community group on the social media platform Yik Yak.

Investigators and students interpreted the message as a reference to the September 2025 fatal shooting of Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, while he was speaking on a university campus. Four students staffing the table told campus police they feared for their safety, WKRC reported. A member of College Republicans who was not at the table reported the message to the FBI.

Police arrested Patterson Nov. 2, according to local reports, and she has remained in the Butler County Jail. WKRC reported that police based the charges on whom the post targeted, its potential reach, and the fear it caused. 

Students for Life of America said its team and student members were conducting an educational outreach display when the post appeared.

“We were in the Armstrong Student Center inside,” Grace Kimzey, Ohio regional coordinator for Students for Life of America, told Fox News Nov. 6. 

“We had our display; we were towards the end of our tabling in our tour when a student saw a post online at Yik Yak,” Kimzey said. “He was just keeping tabs on what's being talked about on social media, about our table and about our display. So we saw that, and then I immediately called the Miami Police Department just to keep our students safe.”

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins told Fox News that she had encountered similar references to Kirk while visiting college campuses.

“I've been on campuses for the past three weeks alongside Turning Point USA on my fall tour, and I'm there, you know, under a TPUSA tent. Cameras are on me. There are signs saying we are filming in this area, yet there will be students who will stand beside me and call me Mrs. Kirk, and they'll use the verb ‘Kirked’ over and over again,” Hawkins said.

“I asked one student recently, ‘Do you think it's moral to shoot me? If you disagree with me and what I do, do you think it's moral to shoot me?’ And the young man looked right at me and said, ‘Yes,’” Hawkins said. “I mean, this is a different level. And I think the older generations, even my generation, the elder millennials, if you will, when we were having dialogue on campuses, it didn't reach this level.”