Staff and students at a high school in Colorado say they are ‘scared to death’ after a student hacked into a teachers email and then began to sent messages threatening to kill the instructor in front of their class.
Police and security have been sent to Rangeview High School, in Aurora after the student also threatened to bring a bomb into class this morning.
Teachers had threatened to call in sick en masse if the student was not identified, despite authorities saying the threat was ‘not credible’.
Rangeview opened this morning, according to a spokesman, though it is not immediately clear if the ‘sickout’ took place.
The threat also comes exactly a week after Chris Harper-Mercer stormed the campus of Umpqua Community College and shot nine people dead, injuring another nine.
According to the Aurora Sentinel, emails were sent out from a teacher’s account on Monday, before more threats were discovered on Wednesday.
In one of the poorly spelled and punctuated messages, the student wrote: ‘Did I ever tell you how gay you are and I f****** hate you – you can go die somewhere you f****** bitch I will come in your class and kill you right in front of all the kids I dont f****** care if they see.
‘I hacked your email thats why I am sending you this to yourself for proof I told you not to make us do work but you didn’t do what I said so this is just getting started.
A spokesman for Aurora Public Schools said both school authorities and the police had investigated the threat, but couldn’t find any credibility to it.
Despite that, sources inside the school told the Sentinel that police had given the teacher concerned no information on their investigation, and said the instructor would not be in today.
However, they were also unable to work out who had sent the messages, as word quickly spread among teachers and students about their existence.
