CLINTON CHARTER TWP. (WWJ) - Police in Clinton Charter Township are continuing to investigate the origin of a chilling bomb threat emailed to the principal of a local school, causing a wide-scale evacuation of staff and students on Thursday.
While police said nothing was found after they swept Clintondale High School and Middle School with bomb-detection dogs, they're currently focusing their efforts on finding who sent the disturbing threat.
According to Clintondale Community Schools superintendent Rodriguez Broadnax, the high school principal was sent an email around 9 a.m. on Nov. 10 containing a threatening message.
Broadnax said the sender wrote that they "didn't care about living and didn't care about anybody else living,"
Local authorities were immediately notified and both the middle and high schools were evacuated to the football field.
Clinton Township police along with Michigan State Police conducted a search of the buildings, which included sweeping the area with K9 units trained to detect explosives, but nothing was found.
Broadnax said students were allowed to return to class, but parents were given the option to pick their child up if they wished.
Investigators are currently working on finding the origin of the email.
The latest threat comes two weeks after another student was arrested at the high school after they brought an airsoft gun to class. The incident caused both the middle school and high school to initiate lockdown procedures.
The superintendent clarified that Clintondale High School has not been experiencing threats this year until very recently, but the phenomena has seen a spike around the state since the Oxford school shooting in November of 2021.
According to OK2SAY, the state's program that encourages confidential tips on criminal activities or potential harm directed at students, school employees, and schools, tips for 2021 calendar year 2021 increased more than 67% compared to 2020.