Bomb Threat Made Against Charlotte-Area High School

CHARLOTTE, NC — Hickory Ridge High School in Harrisburg was evacuated Tuesday morning after a written threat was found in a girl’s bathroom. Scrawled across the crumpled paper in blue marker, it read, “Let’s make another Parkland High School.”

School officials evacuated the high school students to the local middle school as a precaution as they investigated the threat with local law enforcement. Students returned to class around 10:40 a.m. after the school was cleared, Fox 46 reported.

Parents went to the school to pick up their children after they saw word of the threat online, WSOC reported. “To have this happen here, you never think that you're going to be one of these parents but today -- and I know my girls are safe -- but that feeling did just show up with me and it shouldn't be happening in the U.S. It should not be happening," mother Requelle Mincey told the station.

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The bomb threat comes close on the heels of several other copycat threats made against schools in the Charlotte-metro region following the Feb 14 massacre of 17 students in Parkland, Fla.

In late February, a 14-year-old high school freshman was arrested and charged by Salisbury police for making threats to "shoot up" the school, which led the school to spend two days on lockdown, according to reports. The juvenile, who has not been identified, made the threat on Facebook under the name Ray Andreas and by cloning another social media threat out of Ohio threatening a school shooting, The Salisbury Post reported.

Last Wednesday, A juvenile was arrested Thursday for threatening gun violence at three Charlotte-area middle schools over social media. The threat, made over SnapChat on Feb. 28, said "Imma shoot up southwest tmrw, be ready," WCNC reported. Southwest Middle, Community House Middle and Kennedy Middle schools were all targeted in the threats.

SEE ALSO: Salisbury High School Student Arrested For Making Shooting Threat

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