Miami University Student Hit with Felony Terroristic Threat Charge and $170K Bond After Asking How Many Dining Dollars to ‘Kirk’ Students for Life Table

A 19-year-old Miami University student is locked up in the Butler County Jail on a $170,000 bond after police say she posted an anonymous message on the Yik Yak app asking how many “dining dollars” it would take to “kirk the anti-abortion table” while Students for Life of America members tabled in the Armstrong Student Center.

Alexandra R. Patterson was arrested by Miami University police on November 2 and charged with one felony count of making a terroristic threat, plus misdemeanor counts of aggravated menacing, telecommunications harassment, and inducing panic.

Authorities also notified the FBI.

The October 28 post, made in the app’s “Miami Ohio” group and visible to users near the Oxford campus, read:

“How many dining dollars to kirk the anti-abortion table in Armstrong.”

Court documents state that four students were at the anti-abortion information booth at the time.

The students and others understood “kirk” as a clear reference to the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk while he was speaking on a university campus.

Investigators allege the post was made to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population, namely students who express that viewpoint on campus.”

A College Republicans member who saw the message and was not at the booth also filed a tip with the FBI, according to the documents.

Students for Life of America said the display was part of its “Meet Abortion’s Victims: Every Abortion Has a Human Cost” educational outreach.

Ohio regional coordinator Grace Kimzey told Fox News that a student monitoring social media spotted the post, after which she immediately called Miami University police “just to keep our students safe.”

An SFLA team member who reported the incident said in a statement, “Students should not be threatening other students online, even if it’s ‘anonymous.’ … I do not want our pro-life students to feel unsafe in any way, especially when they have freedom of speech.”

SFLA President Kristan Hawkins said the episode fits a broader pattern she has encountered on 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’ve asked students just to their faces when they will say something about Charlie,” Hawkins continued. “They’ll laugh, I’ll say, ‘Do you think it was funny what happened to my friend, that he was assassinated, a husband and a father who was a good man by all accounts? You think this was funny?’ And they’ll just continue to laugh.”

Hawkins also told Fox News about another incident where a student told her to her face that it would be moral to shoot her.

“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.”

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