Nashville's Gordon Jewish Community Center Evacuated After Hoax Bomb Threat

NASHVILLE, TN — The Gordon Jewish Community Center received a bomb threat and was evacuated Monday morning. Nashville's JCC was one of several nationwide that received phone threats Monday.

Metro Police were called shortly before 10:30 a.m. after the call came into the JCC on Percy Warner Boulevard. Investigators gave the all clear for people to return inside around 12:20 p.m after the threat was determined to be a hoax.

According to The Tennessean, about 100 people were inside and all were evacuated from the building.

Special Agent Michael P. Knight of the Nashville field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told the newspaper the ATF will provide "technical assistance" as needed.

The Bender JCC of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. was "safely evacuated due to a phone threat." Two JCCs in the Miami area were also evacuated after receiving bomb threat calls. Three hundred children were evacuated from the Dave & Mary Alper JCC after a call came in around 11 a.m., just minutes after a bomb threat was called into the JCC in Miami Beach.

The Jewish Community Alliance in Jacksonville, Fla. was also evacuated after a threat:

In South Carolina, the Katie and Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center in Columbia was evacuated after a threat was called in around 11:30 a.m, according to WIS.

The New Castle County, Del. police tweeted that they were on the scene of a bomb threat to the JCC there, as well.

There was no known link between the threats as of early Monday afternoon.

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