Perry Hall High evacuated after racist bomb threat
With racial threats already flying across the Internet, Perry Hall High School officials evacuated the building Friday after receiving a bomb threat.
Police brought bomb-sniffing dogs to the cleared-out school and determined the threat to be “a hoax,” said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey.
On Wednesday, when 13 black students began receiving messages on MySpace.com “filled with racist language,” Toohey said. “There were rumors of beatings and fights.”
One message said there would be an explosion at noon Friday at the school, police said. A 15-year-old girl who received the messages told police “three white boys” jumped her, escalating fear of a racial attack at the school, Toohey said. But that story turned out to be false, he said.
The Perry Hall school resource officer determined one of the 13 black students ? or someone very close to them ? wrote the messages, Toohey said. Police are obtaining search warrants for the students? computers and a subpoena for MySpace.com, Toohey said.
The 15-year-old girl will be charged with filing a false police report, he said.
