Newtown, Conn., schools placed on lockdown following telephone threat to Hawley Elementary
Source: NYDailyNews.com / U.S
The FBI and the Newtown police are investigating the 'implied threat' made to received Monday afternoon at Hawley Elementary School.
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Schools in Newtown, Conn., were placed on lockdown Monday afternoon, after a threatening phone call was made to Hawley Elementary.
After receiving the phone threat, all of the district's schools were placed on what officials described as a "modified lockdown" that lasted less than an hour and effected more than 5,500 students.
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"At 2:05 p.m. this afternoon, a phone call was received at Hawley School containing an implied threat to the Hawley staff and students. In addition to the on-site security, other representatives of the Newtown Police Department and Chief Michael Kehoe arrived at Hawley. They requested that Superintendent John Reed put the school system in modified lockdown," the superintendent's office said in an email sent to parents.
Students at the schools were released approximately 35 minutes late because of the lockdown.
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The FBI has joined the Newtown Police Department in an investigation of the phone threat, which school officials declined to characterize, though Reed's office said it did not involve a bomb threat.
“A phone call was received at the Hawley School containing an implied threat to the Hawley School,” Reed told WTIC. “In addition to the police man who was present when the call came in, other members of the Newtown Police Department and the Chief Michael Kehoe arrived within 5 minutes.”
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In effect, the entire town still has PTSD.
