January 27, 2016
Police say a teen is in custody after a threat was posted on social media against a few Delaware County schools.
The Instagram post appeared shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday and threatened an attack against students in the Chester Upland School District, the Community Charter School and Chichester High School, 6ABC reports.
According to CBSPhilly, the post included images of guns, a casket, a knife and horned-faces and closed with the phrase, “All blacks must die.”
Authorities say they were able to trace the message to a home on the 1300 block of Harshaw Road, where a 17-year-old girl, who is said to be a Chester student, was taken into custody, 6ABC reports.
IP addresses.... 21st century DNA #gonnagetya
— Upland Police Dept (@UplandBoroPD) January 27, 2016
Chichester School District Superintendent Dr. Kathy Sherman released a statement on the threat early Wednesday morning on the district Facebook page.
"As you are aware, yesterday evening several area school districts, including the Chichester School District, were named in a threatening social media post," she wrote. "Local law enforcement has worked diligently through the night and the individual who posted the threatening social media message was apprehended and therefore, there is no longer a threat. We are grateful for their tenacity in resolving this matter."
Chester police and the FBI are both investigating, according to NBC10.
Sherman said schools will be open Wednesday.
