Germantown police investigating threat against Kennedy Middle School teachers
The Germantown Police Department is investigating a threat made toward Kennedy Middle School teachers.
The Police Department learned of the threat the morning of June 2. The threat had been was emailed to the middle school over the weekend. While the email did not have much detail, it did threaten to harm teachers at the school, according to a news release from Germantown Police Chief Patrick Merten posted June 2 on the Germantown Police Department's Facebook page.
Police responded, checking the area outside of the school and standing outside the school when students and staff arrived June 2. Additional police were present at the school throughout the school day. The department is actively investigating the source of the threat, the release said.
Germantown Police were assisted by the Washington County Sheriff's Department, which provided a perimeter outside the school,
Merten said in a June 3 email to a reporter that there will be additional police at all district schools the rest of the school year.
Merten said the district has school resource officers in the schools every day and that patrol officers conduct periodic walk-throughs of the schools daily. The department plans to share any additional information on its Facebook page as that information becomes available, Merten said.
Germantown School District superintendent Chris Reuter did not respond to a reporter's phone or email messages seeking comment.
Contact Alec Johnson at (262) 875-9469 or alec.johnson@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at@AlecJohnson12.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Germantown police investigating threat at Kennedy Middle School
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