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Feb 9, 20222 min
Updated: Jun 13, 2023
PUBLIC SAFETY ALERT
PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT
Bomb threats were made Wednesday against at least six D.C. public high schools and charter schools, forcing buildings to be evacuated of students and staff, according to police and school officials. Schools affected include:
Dunbar High School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Ron Brown High School
KIPP DC College Preparatory
IDEA Public Charter School
Seed Public Charter School
As of 1:15 p.m., police said nothing hazardous had been found but cautioned searches were underway at multiple locations miles apart and in nearly every quadrant of the district.
The public high schools affected are Theodore Roosevelt in Petworth in Northwest Washington, Ron Brown in Deanwood in Northeast and Dunbar in Truxton Circle in Northwest, police said. Dunbar also was targeted in a bomb threat on Tuesday.
D.C. police said threats also were made against charter schools on Wednesday but did not immediately identify them. One was Idea Public Charter School, which confirmed the threat on its Internet site.
The message from IDEA said the school, pending guidance from police, planned to open Thursday as planned, but with an increased police presence in and outside of the building.
“Our school is committed to the safety and education of all our scholars,” the statement from IDEA said. “All threats to our school or scholars are taken seriously and investigated thoroughly.” The D.C. Public Schools system issued a statement saying the Dunbar, Roosevelt and Ron Brown campuses had safely been evacuated.
Wednesday’s threats came a day after a bomb threat was called into Dunbar during a visit by second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Harris, who was evacuated from the school along with students and staff.
Police said that in that instance, a person called the school’s front desk, said there was a bomb inside and warned that people had 10 minutes to leave. Police searched the building with bomb technicians and dogs trained to detect explosives and found nothing.
No arrest has been made in that case, and police said it was too early to say if there is any connection to the threats made on Wednesday. A D.C. police official said investigators do not think the bomb threat made to Dunbar on Tuesday is related to recent threats made to historically Black colleges and universities, which have caused significant disruptions on campuses in and around the district and across the country.
Source Agency (Washington Post)
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Incident Number
1-220209-7401
Alert Type
Public Safety Alert
Incident Type
Public Safety Threat
Incident Occurred
February 9, 2022
Alert Posted
February 9, 2022
Location
Washington, DC
END OF ALERT