Two Indiana school districts are closed Thursday after threats of violence were made online overnight on Wednesday.
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The Indiana threats appeared to be different from the hoax emails sent to the larger school districts elsewhere in the country, Danville Community School Corporation Superintendent Tracy Shafer told Reuters.
The social media post targeted a student, police said. Danville Police Chief William Wright said those students, a freshman and a senior are facing preliminary charges of intimidation.
School will resume on January 4.
Police and the FBI investigated, and learned the threat was actually directed toward a school district in Plainfield, Indiana.
Early Thursday morning police said a separate threat was made to Plainfield and later police discovered the same social media account was making threats to Danville as well.
A spokeswoman for Broward County Public Schools in South Florida said the district’s police department immediately communicated an emailed threat it received late Wednesday to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
The messages Thursday morning alerting students, parents, and faculty about the closure made no mention of the gun threat.
Wright had words for the person who threatened the two districts: “Get ready to go to jail”.
The Plainfield Community School Corporation has about 5,000 students attending its four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.
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The lockdown was then lifted at the high school and elementary school, police said. We’re just flat-out not gonna put up with it. You’re not gonna come into our community and threaten our kids or any of the neighboring communities here. No further statements are planned at this time.
