Local authorities are responding to “credible threats” on Tuesday at Columbine High School and as many as 20 other schools in the Denver, Colo., area.
Mike Taplin, a spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, said their office is working alongside federal authorities, including the FBI, in investigating the threat. More than a dozen schools, including Columbine High School, have heightened their security and are under lockdown. Taplin, however, did not give any additional information regarding the threat.
Law enforcement officials say that while some of the campuses across Jefferson County remain on lockdown, students’ classes still continue.
The threats come four days short of the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, when two of the school’s students, Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, killed 12 students and one teacher. The pair had also planted around the campus small homemade bombs, which did not explode. Law enforcement officials have not publicly made any connection between the threats and the anniversary of the shooting.
