A March 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) warned people of a purported threat to students at a school in North Carolina.
“Active shooter at Chambers High School!” reads the post.
It was shared more than 60 times in one day.
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The school district said there was no active shooter on the campus on March 1, but several students received threatening messages that local law enforcement is investigating. The school did go into lockdown that day for an unrelated police incident.
There was no active shooter incident at Julius L. Chambers High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 1, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools spokesperson Eddie Perez.
But the school did have an alarming incident, Perez explained.
“We had threatening messages shared via Airdrop with some students at the school,” Perez told USA TODAY. “Law enforcement is investigating.”
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The messages were shared with the students on the morning of March 1, but the incident did not disrupt the school schedule, Perez said. He did not provide further detail on the content or source of the messages.
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