MSP MEDIA STATEMENT: STATE POLICE ASSISTING LOCAL POLICE IN RESPONDING TO THREATS MADE TO SCHOOLS

For the second consecutive day Massachusetts State Police units are responding to assist local police in multiple communities following bomb and shooting threats to schools. Thus far every call has been determined to be a hoax.

Between 10 AM and noon three shooting/bomb threats were received by schools in Springfield, Great Barrington, and Greenfield.

At approximately 10:15 AM a shooting/bomb threat was received by a school in Clinton.

Between 10:45 AM and 11:45 AM shooting/bomb threats were received by schools in Duxbury, Edgartown, Harwich, and Fall River.

The threats received were consistent in content with each other and those made to other schools yesterday. State Police patrols, K9 teams, and the Bomb Squad responded to all of the above locations along with local police departments. Every school was cleared and the threats determined to be hoax calls. All incidents were reported to the State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center.

The Fusion Center is assisting in investigating the source or sources of the threats.

The threats listed above are those to which MSP has responded. There may have been other threats cleared solely by local police.

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