- April 22, 2024
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A bomb threat written in a bathroom at Flagler Palm Coast High School delayed the start of classes by half an hour the morning of April 26 as school security and a school resource deputy searched the school.
“At this point, it’s unfounded,” Flagler County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Brittany Kershaw said about the threat. “They haven’t been able to identify a suspect, but they will continue to work on that.”
School personnel noticed the threat at about 7 a.m. as they prepared to open the school. The threat to bomb the school included the date, Kershaw said.
The school usually opens at about 7:30. The school contacted law enforcement and first checked the school stadium for threats, so that students could be held there, away from the main buildings, as the rest of the school was checked, according to a news release from Flagler Schools.
Nothing was found during the sweep of the stadium, so arriving students were directed there.
School administrators searched the school with assistance from FPC’s School Resource Deputy, Jason Williams, Kershaw said. They didn’t find anything suspicious, and the written threat was cleaned off the wall.
Students were allowed into the school buildings shortly before 8 a.m., and the school delayed its schedule by half an hour so students would have a chance to eat breakfast at the school cafeteria, according to the news release. The first class period was adjusted as well.
Additional deputies are stationed at the campus, and deputies and school staff are checking surveillance video for clues as to who might have written the threat, Kershaw said.
Because the threat was written inside a bathroom — out of sight of the cameras — the actual writing of the threat will not have been caught on camera, but video from outside the bathroom could narrow down the pool of suspects.
The school district has urged anyone with information about the threat to report it immediately, by contacting a teacher or administrator or through the “See Something, Say Something” section on the Flagler Schools website, or through the FortifyFL app, according to the news release.
