iPhone threat prompts lockdown, closure at Waverly High School - Lansing State Journal

WAVERLY – Waverly High School went into lockdown Wednesday, and students were escorted retired of their classrooms and sent location due to the fact that students received threats of unit connected their phones.

According to a Waverly Community Schools Facebook station published astatine 11:22 a.m., Waverly High School was placed successful lockdown arsenic deputies from the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office and schoolhouse administrators completed a menace assessment.

Students received a “threat of unit via 'Air Drop' connected iPhones," according to the Facebook post. District officials said they would update parents via email with the presumption of the investigation.

Superintendent Kelly Blake, astatine astir 12:30 p.m., said buses would statesman arriving to instrumentality students location “out of an abundance of caution.” Students were to beryllium escorted retired by classroom. Parents were capable to prime up their children astatine the southbound extremity of the precocious school.

This comes a time aft MacDonald Middle School successful East Lansing closed owed to abstracted threats shared connected the Snapchat app. East Lansing Public Schools Superintendent Dori Leyko sent an update to parents Tuesday evening explaining that a Snapchat relationship utilized to disseminate the threats had been linked to a student's email address.

"The idiosyncratic is a(n) MMS pupil who posed connected Snapchat arsenic a begetter seeking retaliation connected students who bullied his son," Leyko said successful the email. "Based connected the accusation we have, we judge this communicative to beryllium (fabricated) by the pupil and that nary specified concern existed."

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