Shooter incident at elementary school in Uvalde, Texas - 19 children and 2 adults dead

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With a new academic year underway, schools across the U.S. are facing twin threats: the very real prospect of gun violence, as evidenced by the recent tragedy in Georgia, and a rising wave of hoax threats.

In the wake of the Apalachee High shooting, FBI Houston officials said they had gotten more hoax school threats in the following three weeks than in the previous three years.

A Missouri hotline has already gotten 301 potential school threats, nearing the total of the entire previous academic year. One Florida sheriff said 54 threats came through a state tip line on a single night this semester.

Lodi, California, has experienced threats both real and imagined since, to frightening results. On September 16, Lodi police arrested a 15-year in connection to threats against an unnamed local school, part of a wave of similar arrestsaround the Central Valley.

Two days later, an alarm tripped at Lodi High School, sending the campus into a full lockdown, prompting community members to panic. Lodi worried disaster had finally struck them too.

As police raced to campus, false rumors quickly spread on social media and between residents that one or maybe multiple suspects were on the scene and arrests had been made……….



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-shooting-threat-data-guns-hoax-b2623518.html