“There is no threat to the public, and as with all threats of violence, our highest priority is to keep the community safe,” Blue Springs police said in a press release Wednesday morning.
The charges are pending at the local prosecutor’s office, according to the statement.
Police received a report around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday on a suspicious Snapchat post, according to the statement, in which someone made a threatening comment about “killing people, mass killings.” According to police, the location of the threat has not been specified.
In response to the alleged threat, the Blue Springs School District announced Tuesday that it would cancel Wednesday’s activities “as a precaution” after Blue Springs police “alerted the FBI of a possible shooting-related threat.” unspecified mass “.
“The FBI has confirmed that the individual whose whereabouts are unknown is dangerous,” said the school district, which serves more than 14,000 students about 20 miles east of Kansas City. communicated on Facebook.
“We believe the best course of action is to close our summer schools and all school programming until further notice,” he said.
In their own statements, some of the districts noted that they had no information indicating that the threat was related to their respective school communities. But they, like Blue Springs, chose to cancel Wednesday’s activities as a precaution.
The FBI confirmed that Blue Springs police were aware of the threat in a statement to CNN, but directed further inquiries to that department, which is the main investigative agency.
“We take all threats of violence seriously and work with our local partners to provide resources as needed,” the FBI statement said.
CNN’s Kara Devlin and Chris Boyette contributed to this report.