Father Gabriel Richard High School, Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Others Forced to Close Due to Threats

The Virginia Tech massacre happened just Monday on April 16, 2007 that's three days ago but even though it has been days now since the shootings at Virginia Tech threats of shootings at other schools have been popping up like wildflowers and scaring many students, parents, and school officials at high schools and universities. In the rouse of the shootings at Virginia Tech high schools and universities in particular are on alert and remaining aware of what is happening at their school, near their school and on their campuses. Since school officials and students at high schools and universities across the U.S. are now keeping their eyes open; students at Father Gabriel Richard High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan received a scare when their school was put on lockdown because of a threatening message found written on the boys bathroom wall that stated "Virginia Tech Today."

After the note was discovered by boys in the restroom; the sheriff was called to investigate and students were held in classrooms for two hours and no one was allowed to leave the school as the police searched the school and viewed the surveillance tapes, from the bathroom. The school was able to identify the 17 year old student through the videotape who wrote the message as a hoax.

Father Gabriel Richard High School officials are now contemplating prosecution of the student. After two hours, students were finally released only to their parents and classes were dismissed for the rest of the day. The students and parents were relieved the threat was not serious and outraged that it was a hoax. But Father Gabriel High School was not the only ones to get a scare, the same day as Father Gabriel Richard High School; Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Michigan closed its campus for two days because of a threat posted on the Internet referencing the college and the Virginia Tech Shootings.