San Francisco Schools Receive Email Threat Similar to LA

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Houston Independent School District announced on their websites that school officials had received “less-than-credible” late Wednesday evening.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles School District shut down every campus after they received an e-mail threat.

According to the Los Angeles Times, school district officials confirmed that this was the email they received but they declined to be named because they were not authorized to release that information.

Robert Mock, police chief for the Houston Independent School District, said random overnight searches by explosives-detecting dogs and patrol officers turned up nothing after district officials, including the superintendent, received the threat by email.

LAUD is comprised of over 900 schools that educate 640,000 students.

Similar threats to school districts were also reported in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Texas, Florida and Indiana. Carranza says, “The threat I can say is very similar, nearly identical, to the email threat that was mailed to New York City and Los Angeles earlier in the week”.

The Los Angeles threat earlier in the week was determined to be a hoax.

In Danville, the Danville Community School Corp. said two students – a 14-year-old freshman and a 17-year-old senior – were arrested.

“We have suffered too many school shootings in America to ignore these kinds of threats”, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference Tuesday.

The districts targeted by Wednesday night’s threat will also remain in session Thursday.

HISD police werepresent at the Arabic Immersion Magnet School on Thursday, in Houston.

“This morning after 9 a.m. Clark County School District staff discovered a threatening email similar to those received in other large districts, including LA, NY, Miami and Houston, where they were deemed to be less than credible”, the district wrote in a letter to parents.

Danville and Plainfield are nearby districts located in the western suburbs of Indianapolis. Some students even joked that they would have preferred school closing on Friday so that they could go to the premiere of the new Star Wars film.

The person who sent the threat used an “anonymizer”, which uses a proxy server to mask the origin of Internet traffic, and the email was routed through a German IP address, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.