一名嫌疑人涉嫌制造大规模枪击威胁，导致周三至少密苏里州八个学区取消暑期学校活动，目前已被警方拘留, according to the Blue Springs Police Department.
“There is no threat to the public and as in all threats of violence, our top priority is to keep the community safe,” Blue Springs Police 在新闻稿中说 Wednesday morning.
Charges are pending with the local prosecutor’s office, 声明说.
Police received a report around 10:30 上午. Tuesday about a suspicious Snapchat post, 声明说, in which someone made a comment threatening “killing people — mass murdering.” 据警察, a location for the threat was not specified.
In response to the purported threat, 的 Blue Springs School District announced Tuesday it would cancel Wednesday’s activities “出于极大的谨慎” after Blue Springs police “alerted the FBI of a possible threat related to an unspecific mass shooting.”
“The FBI has confirmed that the individual in question whose whereabouts are unknown is dangerous,” the school district, which serves more than 14,000 students about 20 miles east of Kansas City, said in a statement on Facebook.
“We believe the best course of action is to close our summer school sites and all school programming until further notice,” 它说.
By Wednesday morning, seven other area school districts — 包含 Lee’s Summit School District, Independence School District, Fort Osage School District, Grain Valley School District, Oak Grove RV-I Schools, Odessa R-VII Schools 和 Lone Jack School District — had followed suit.
In their own statements, some of the districts noted they did not have any information indicating the threat was related to their respective school communities. But they, like Blue Springs, opted to cancel activities Wednesday out of an abundance of caution.
The FBI confirmed it had been made aware of the threat by Blue Springs police in a statement to CNN but directed further questions to that department, which is the lead investigative agency.
“We take all threats of violence seriously and work with our local partners to provide resources as needed,” the FBI statement said.
