Threatening call places 2 Mount Pleasant schools into lockout
School district officials say there is no threat to the public.
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Two Mount Pleasant schools were placed in a lockout on Monday afternoon.
Parents waited in pickup lines at Westlake Middle School and High School.
It began when the main office received a threatening phone call around 2:45 p.m.
Police say the phone call came in after regular dismissal, so the school went into lockout mode. Law enforcement later deemed it was a swatting call.
"Everyone is safe, treated it as the real thing and we're actively investigating it now as a terrorist threat," says Mount Pleasant Police.
All after-school activities were canceled.
School district officials say there is no threat to the public and that there will be an increased physical presence from Mount Pleasant police on each of its three campuses (Hawthorne, Columbus and Westlake) all day Tuesday.
