School canceled after Illinois bomb and firearm threat
The threat was directed toward five schools around 8:45 am. Buses already en route took students to local churches. Teachers, administrators and students who had arrived early were evacuated.
Illinois (News Gazette) May 12, 2010 -- School was canceled for the day May 12 in the Mahomet-Seymour district in Mahomet, Illinois after a bomb and firearm threat.
The Mahomet police chief said the threat was in a note found in the drop-off box of the Mahomet Public Library. Officials earlier described a bomb threat, but a release from the school superintendent Keith Oates referred to “both a bomb and firearm threat.”
The threat was directed toward all five schools, according to a Mahomet officer. “We were made aware of it around 8:45 a.m.,” the police chief said. “We had a late start today at school, so the kids weren’t due at school until 10 a.m. I notified the superintendent, and he made the decision to divert the students to alternative locations.”
Buses already en route took students to local churches. Parents and children were notified as they arrived at the schools. Some parents took their children home. Teachers, administrators and students who had arrived early were evacuated.
The threat was specific to May 12, according to the school superintendent, who sent out e-mails and mass calls to parents. “We wanted our parents to be aware (of the threat),” the school superintendent said.
Mahomet police and county deputies will be working together to have a presence in the district for the rest of the week. An initial walk-through found nothing at any of the schools. Two bomb-sniffing dogs, from the University of Illinois and the Champaign County sheriff’s office were then taken back through the buildings and nothing was found in any of them.
Source: DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report
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