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Threat Tweeted from Canada Closed Upper Merion Schools

The entire Upper Merion school district was closed Friday following a threatening tweet sent over the social media platform to the district's superintendent, police said Friday evening.

"The threat specifically referenced an individual coming to the school with a gun to harm students," according to a police report.

The tweet, it turns out, came all the way from Canada, police said.

A suspect was identified after an investigation, and by the afternoon Friday, police in the city of Montreal took a man into custody.

"At this point we do not know if this individual has any connection to the Upper Merion Area School District, nor do we know why he made the threat," Upper Merion police said in the report. "We have no reason to believe that there is any active threat against the Upper Merion School District."

"We will work through this as a community knowing that we will not allow these senseless acts of stupidity to define us!" schools Superintendent John Toleno wrote on Twitter earlier in the day.

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