Police Investigate Threatening Texts To Phila. High School
By Mike DeNardo
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It was an early dismissal at Simon Gratz High School Tuesday, as police investigate threatening texts sent to the school.
Simon Gratz High was on lockdown for its entire school day while police and Homeland Security officials investigated threats, says Monica Lewis, a spokeswoman for Mastery Charter Schools which runs Gratz.
"Overnight, late last evening a couple of our staff members received some text messages that were of a threatening nature, indicating potentially a bomb in the school," said Lewis.
Police determined there was no bomb in the school and students and staff were allowed in for the day, but no one else. One thousand four hundred students attend the Nicetown school. Parents were alerted to the situation by a morning phone call, and many arrived to pick up their children. Classes were dismissed early at 1:15.
