Death Threat Means Metal Detectors at Morristown High

By Karen Araiza
|  Monday, Mar 15, 2010  |  Updated 8:31 AM EDT
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Death Threat Means Metal Detectors at Morristown High

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Students at Morristown High School in Morristown, N.J. will have to go through metal detectors on Monday, March 15, 2010 due to a message found the week before in a boys bathroom threatening to kill 15 people.

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Extra police will be on hand and everyone will have to go through a metal detector to get into Morristown High School today after someone left a message in a boys bathroom last week saying "I'm going to kill 15 people 3/15/10."

"We expect long lines. . .All metal objects such as jewelry, keys, belt buckles, etc. will need to be removed from their person and backpacks prior to passing through the detectors," administrators wrote in an email Sunday according to the Daily Record.

Open lunch is canceled and once students are in the building, they won't be allowed to leave until school is out.

More than one threatening message was found last Wednesday inside that bathroom.

On Friday, police dogs were brought in to search lockers and did not find anything out of the ordinary.

Police told parents there is no "hit list" naming anyone in particular.

Investigators are trying to determine if the messages are connected to a recent bullying incident and robbery at the school.

Posted Mar 15, 2010
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