A 19-year-old student at Miami University in Ohio is sitting in jail after she allegedly asked how many “dining dollars” it would cost to have the students running a campus pro-life display killed. Alexandra Patterson was arrested on November 2nd and charged with a felony count of making a terroristic threat, along with misdemeanor charges of inducing panic, aggravated menacing, and telecommunications harassment. She is being held in the Butler County Jail on a $170,000 bond.
The case stems from an October 28th post in the “Miami Ohio” group on Yik Yak, an anonymous app whose feeds are visible to users near the university’s Oxford campus. It asked how many “dining dollars” it would take to “kirk” the anti-abortion table inside the Armstrong Student Center, where four students with Miami’s chapter of Students for Life of America were staffing a booth for the group’s “Meet Abortions’ Victims” tour. The verb references the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the pro-life founder of Turning Point USA who was shot and killed while speaking with students at Utah Valley University on September 10th, 2025.
Patterson faces up to three years in prison on the felony count alone, and each misdemeanor carries a maximum of 180 days behind bars. If she posts bail, a magistrate’s order requires her to wear an ankle monitor, stay off social media, and keep away from the students she is accused of targeting. The incident has also been referred to the FBI.
Libs of TikTok wrote that a “leftist student at @miamiuniversity was ARRESTED after she allegedly asked for someone to ‘kirk’ (aka K*LL) pro-life students. The student faces multiple charges, including making terroristic threats.” A follow-up post identified Patterson by name as the student who allegedly called for people to “Kirk” pro-life students. “She was just arrested FAFO,” the account wrote.
Grace Kimzey, the Ohio regional coordinator for Students for Life of America, recounted the moment for Fox News Digital. “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. “So we saw that, and then I immediately called the Miami Police Department just to keep our students safe.”
WLWT reported that, according to court documents, Patterson allegedly posted: “how many dining dollars to kirk the anti abortion table in Armstrong.” One of the students understood “kirk” to be a reference to Kirk’s assassination, and the students reported the post as a threat to their safety. Investigators say the message was an attempt to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population, namely students who express that viewpoint on campus,” according to Live Action News.
See the pro-life activist recount the threat against the Miami University display here.
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On November 9th, the Miami University College Republicans, Turning Point USA at Miami University, and the campus Students for Life chapter jointly condemned the “threat of violence made against students staffing a pro-life display in Armstrong Student Center,” the Journal-News reported. “We don’t really take it too seriously until something like this happens and then we remember that there are people that wouldn’t mind if we were harmed because of what we believe,” said Josie Zimmerman, president of Students for Life at Miami University. “Suggesting that students be killed over their views is not a joke and it is not free speech. It is a threat, and should be taken seriously,” said Drew Belcher, chairman of the College Republicans at Miami University.
Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins told Fox News Digital that students on her fall tour have been invoking her friend’s death to her face. “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.'”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video.