Less than 30 minutes later, several schools in the San Diego Unified School District were then put on lockdown after they received similar threats about shootings or explosions.
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Lock down restrictions have shifted to precautionary and parents have been instructed not to pick up their students. At this time, each campus has been locked down so police can investigate.
Diana Robinson thought it was going to be just another normal day, until she received a text from her younger brother, Antonio Lopez, a senior at San Diego High School. The eight schools that were placed on lockdown are Scripps Ranch, Patrick Henry, Morse, SD High, Clairemont, Crawford, Kearny, and Mira Mesa.
Authorities said there was no immediate indication of who might be responsible for the crimes. In the Sweetwater Union High School District only one known threat was made and that was at San Ysidro High. Police searched the areas, but did not find any shooters or explosives. An NBC 7 News chopper captured San Diego Police Department patrol cars on the campuses of Scripps Ranch High Schools. Some were threatened with a bomb, others a shooting.
The searches were complete and all the lockdowns lifted by early afternoon. When we have a school in lockdown, students remain in the classrooms. Parents are not being allowed on campus and students will resume classes when the threat passes, Kroemer said. An additional single officer was sent as a precaution to the eight district high schools that did not receive a threat – Point Loma, Madison, Lincoln, Hoover, University City, Mission Bay, Serra and La Jolla highs.
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The lockdowns on all schools were lifted around 1 p.m. Thursday and things at all ten schools went back to normal.
