Midshipman Candidate Leonard Cummings III‘s mom killed by a stray bullet after dropping him off at the Naval Academy
Michelle Jordan Cummings was a proud mom from Houston who had just dropped her son off at the Naval Academy. She and her husband were sitting on a hotel patio when a stray bullet hit her and killed her instantly. She was 57
Earlier today, the @AnnapolisPD identified the woman shot and killed earlier this morning as Michelle Jordan Cummings of Houston. She was the proud mom of Midshipman Candidate Leonard Cummings III, a 2021 NAPS grad & incoming plebe (freshman) for the USNA Class of 2025.
“As members of our Naval Academy family, we will do all that we can to support Leonard, his father and the entire Cummings family during this unfathomable time. My wife, Joanne, and I, on behalf of all of us here in Annapolis, offer our deepest sympathies.” – VADM Buck U.S. Naval Academy
Multiple shots were fired on Pleasant Street, including at a parked car with two people in it, police said. How the bullets traveled from Pleasant Street to the elevated Graduate Hotel patio, on West Street, by the parking lot is almost inexplicable, Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson said. Cummings was shot more than once, according to the Capitol Gazette.