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Updated 8:53 PM EDT, Mon September 16, 2024
By Chelsea Bailey, CNN
CNN —Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying the Ohio State Highway Patrol to monitor schools in the city of Springfield after they received 33 bomb threats since late last week, he said at a news conference Monday.
Two colleges were moved to virtual learning and two elementary schools were evacuated Monday after receiving separate threats. ...
Students at Simon Kenton and Kenwood Elementary Schools were evacuated “to an alternate district location” Monday based on information district officials received from the city’s police, the Springfield City School District said in a release.
“These are the fifth and sixth SCSD buildings to be targeted by recent threats within the last week,” the district said.
DeWine said 36 troopers from the state patrol’s mobile field force will be present at all 17 school buildings in the Springfield City School District starting Tuesday. ...
“We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions,” DeWine said of those making the threats. “Some of them are coming from one particular country. ...
Elsewhere in the city, classes at Wittenberg University were held remotely Monday while campus police and local law enforcement assessed emailed threats of a bombing and a campus shooting that targeted “members of the Haitian community,” the university said in a statement.
Rob Rue, the city’s mayor, told CNN’s Dana Bash that he and other officials have personally received threats, adding “it would be helpful” if politicians “understood the weight of their words and how they could harm a community like ours.” ...
Two area hospitals closed Thursday after receiving threats and the following day, two local elementary schools were evacuated “based on information received from the Springfield Police Division.”
In an interview with CNN on Monday, DeWine flatly denied the false rumors about the city’s Haitian immigrants and said business leaders feel Haitian immigrants are “really essential to them getting the job done.”
“These Haitians that are there are legal, they work very, very hard,” the governor said. ...
By Chelsea Bailey, CNN
CNN —Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying the Ohio State Highway Patrol to monitor schools in the city of Springfield after they received 33 bomb threats since late last week, he said at a news conference Monday.
Two colleges were moved to virtual learning and two elementary schools were evacuated Monday after receiving separate threats. ...
Students at Simon Kenton and Kenwood Elementary Schools were evacuated “to an alternate district location” Monday based on information district officials received from the city’s police, the Springfield City School District said in a release.
“These are the fifth and sixth SCSD buildings to be targeted by recent threats within the last week,” the district said.
DeWine said 36 troopers from the state patrol’s mobile field force will be present at all 17 school buildings in the Springfield City School District starting Tuesday. ...
“We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions,” DeWine said of those making the threats. “Some of them are coming from one particular country. ...
Elsewhere in the city, classes at Wittenberg University were held remotely Monday while campus police and local law enforcement assessed emailed threats of a bombing and a campus shooting that targeted “members of the Haitian community,” the university said in a statement.
Rob Rue, the city’s mayor, told CNN’s Dana Bash that he and other officials have personally received threats, adding “it would be helpful” if politicians “understood the weight of their words and how they could harm a community like ours.” ...
Two area hospitals closed Thursday after receiving threats and the following day, two local elementary schools were evacuated “based on information received from the Springfield Police Division.”
In an interview with CNN on Monday, DeWine flatly denied the false rumors about the city’s Haitian immigrants and said business leaders feel Haitian immigrants are “really essential to them getting the job done.”
“These Haitians that are there are legal, they work very, very hard,” the governor said. ...