FBI Probing Threats Made To Multiple PA School Districts

PENNSYLVANIA — The FBI is continuing to investigate social media threats that disrupted education in more than a dozen school districts in the state on Tuesday.

Thirteen Propel charter public schools and Sto-Rox Junior-Senior High School in southwestern Pennsylvania switched to virtual learning following a threat on Snapchat that a gun and a bomb would be brought to the school.

About 15 districts received threats, McKeesport Area Superintendent Mark Holtzman told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. McKeesport did not disrupt its schedule.

Brashear High School and South Hills Middle School, both Pittsburgh Public Schools located on the same educational campus, beefed up security but did not move to online classes. North Hills High School in the North Hills School District also did not go virtual after the Ross Township Police Department investigated and said the threat wasn't credible.

It is unclear if any school districts in other parts of the state were impacted.

The threats were made just hours before a school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, that killed four students and wounded seven other people including a teacher. A 15-year-old suspect is in custody.

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