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A day after schools in the Lord Selkirk School Division were shut down due to multiple violent threats posted on social media students returned to school only to be placed in “hold and secure” situation after more threats surfaced Tuesday morning, December 4, 2018.
At 11:30 am the school division put an alert out on their website and on social media about the incident
Out of caution, we are putting our schools into Hold and Secure after seeing a post of a potential threat.
— Lord Selkirk SD (@LordSelkirk_SD) December 4, 2018
Students were allowed to move around the schools but were not allowed to exit the buildings. No one from outside the schools was allowed to enter.
RCMP are investigating the new threats and issued a warning that anyone participating in making online threats can be charged.
New online threats towards a school in the Selkirk area are actively under investigation by Selkirk #rcmpmb. Officers have increased patrols at schools throughout the community. Online threats are taken very seriously & anyone participating in this type of activity can be charged
— RCMP Manitoba (@rcmpmb) December 4, 2018
Michele Polinuk, the division superintendent said that she did not know if the threats found on social media by RCMP on Tuesday were new or old but placed the division on hold and secure out of caution.
Two adults and a youth were arrested and charged for threats made online Sunday. 18-year-old Kingsley Brett Williams has been charged with uttering threats in that incident and will appear in court today. The 16-year-old youth is also facing utter threats charges. The 18-year-old female who was also arrested on Sunday has not been charged.
Just before 2:oo pm the hold and secure was lifted throughout the division.
The threat turned out to be an old threat that had been reshared multiple times through social media said RCMP Inspector Alan Hofland.
Hofland noted that when people reshare this type of threat it makes it difficult for police to get to the bottom of the matter. He said that people should report anything suspicious they see to police rather than share it again online.
RCMP continue to investigate.
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