(Washington) More than half a dozen public high schools in Washington DC were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after receiving anonymous bomb threats. In each case, police found no explosives.
Posted at 8:01 p.m.
The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department announced that seven schools received bomb threats over the phone: Dunbar High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Ron Brown High School, KIPP DC College Preparatory, IDEA Public Charter School, Seed Public Charter School and McKinley Tech High School.
In each case, the students were evacuated and the building was searched and “cleared with no hazardous material found,” the police department announced on Twitter.
An eighth school, Friendship Public Charter School, also received a bomb threat, but the school was not open.
The series of alerts comes a day after Doug Emhoff, husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris, was quickly escorted out of a Black History Month event. , following a bomb threat during a visit to Dunbar High School. The police department said it is “working to fully investigate these threats with the assistance of federal partners” from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Weapons and Explosives (ATF). .
Lewis Ferebee, president of the Washington DC Public Schools, called the threats “troublesome incidents taken very seriously.”
In a statement, Ferebee said the school system would work closely with the police department “regarding any threats made against our schools, students or staff.”