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Kalvin McClure was recorded on a Christ Presbyterian Academy security camera in February 2024, standing on the school's seal and flipping off the school, days before leaving a threatening voicemail that resulted in a federal cyberstalking conviction in 2025.
 
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A Franklin resident was convicted of multiple counts of cyberstalking in a federal court on Feb. 28 and is facing up to five years in prison.

Kalvin McClure, a 31-year-old former Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA) student, was initially arrested in April 2024 after the school received a threatening voicemail on March 24, 2024, just days before the one-year anniversary of the Covenant School shooting. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court, the person in the voicemail said their “name used to be legally McKenzie Anne Stephens.”

The threat resulted in the closure of the school on the following Monday, and general anxiety among Middle Tennessee schools, both public and private. That voicemail, according to court documents, included references to CPA’s former Senior Pastor Scott Sauls, as well as the movie Deadpool 2, which includes a revenge plot for an abusive orphanage headmaster, and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.

McClure's now-deleted X account also mentioned the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Gov. Bill Lee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Tennessee Department of Homeland Security.

In February 2024, McClure was recorded on CPA’s surveillance cameras, according to a release, “attempting to enter the locked doors of the church sanctuary three times, taking pictures of the maps of the school grounds, and flipping off the school campus while standing on the school crest.”

McClure was also sent to a mental health facility and later released to home confinement before the February 2025 trial, and now faces up to five years in federal prison. McClure is scheduled to be sentenced on July 7.

“Children, parents, teachers, administrators and staff need to feel safe from harm while at school,” Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire said in a news release.