Authorities evacuated Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning after it received a bomb threat on the anniversary of a 2012 mass shooting at the Connecticut…
Authorities evacuated Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning after it received a bomb threat on the anniversary of a 2012 mass shooting at the Connecticut school.
The school was evacuated after school personnel reported a bomb threat to the Newtown Police Department at approximately 9 a.m., the department wrote in a Facebook post Friday .
“Newtown Police went to Sandy Hook School to investigate the threat and it is currently being investigated by members of the Newtown Police Department,” the department wrote on Facebook. “The school was safely and orderly evacuated for precautionary reasons and so that a thorough sweep of the school could be performed.”
Students were sent home for the day, according to the department.
The bomb threat falls on the sixth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre. Now-deceased shooter Adam Lanza, 20,shot his sleeping mother four times on Dec.
