Significant amount of school shooting threats follow Nashville shooting

A “significant” amount of students stayed home Friday after a shooting threat at Lebanon High School.

The threat was one of many made to various schools throughout Middle Tennessee following Monday’s mass shooting at The Covenant School in Green Hills.

“I’m not sending my child to school. It’s so scary,” Lisa Young, a mother of a first grader, told News 2.Walk-Out for gun safety planned Monday; Metro Schools urge for ‘Walk-In’ instead

It’s a thought that’s crossed the minds of many since six people, including three children, were killed at The Covenant School.

“Our hearts are still aching; being in that education community, it hurts,” said Bart Barker with Wilson County Schools.

School threats like the one Lebanon High School students saw on social media Thursday only reinforce the pain.

Barker was alerted Thursday night by a mother of a Lebanon High School student about a Snapchat message that included a shooting threat at the high school for Friday at a specific time. That mother also took the threat to police.

“Very good actions from both the student and the parent to report it very quickly,” said Barker.

The school’s principal sent a message to families late Thursday night, saying in part that investigators found the threat was posted on a student’s Snapchat account by someone else and from another device, and that they were working to pinpoint the IP address where the post originated.