LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A bomb and active shooter threat at Lubbock High School on Friday led to some stress, worry and inconvenience, while taking kids out of the classroom.
Looking back nearly a week later, Superintendent Kathy Rollo says the good news is her team was prepared.
“Fortunately, there are a few things that we will tweak for future practices and protocols. But overall, things went the way that they should,” Rollo said.
Someone contacted the Lubbock Police Department Friday morning claiming several bombs were on a timer inside Lubbock High and threatened to shoot any officers who responded to the campus.
The district put the school on lockdown, later moving students through a reunification process, bussing them to the central office for parent pickup.
Some parents waited several hours outside to pick up their children.
“We apologize for that to a degree, we don’t want anyone to have to go through that inconvenience and that trauma of fear,” Rollo said. “However, we also want to make sure we’re releasing kids to the proper people. Because that’s a safety factor as well. So, it just takes some time to do that.”
Administrators, officers and safety officials held a debrief Monday morning. They talked through things like purchasing wheelchairs for parents or grandparents waiting in line and planning for worse weather conditions.
“One of the things we determined we would need to do in the future is maybe have more people assigned to walking up and down the line of parents, just checking in on them and making sure they’re okay,” Rollo said. “We also realized we needed to have better traffic flow, people that are helping the buses know where to go and helping parents know where to go park.”
Rollo says she’s proud of her communications team, which sent updates to families every 20 minutes throughout the incident.
“Even though there really wasn’t any new information, we were still reaching out and communicating with families through our messaging systems and then also with media, too, so that you had accurate information,” Rollo said. “So, I think that went really, really well.”
While the district confirmed the threat was determined to be false around midday, Rollo said the incident gave the district an opportunity to practice its protocols.
The identity of the person responsible has not been determined. Rollo said the FBI is leading the investigation.
“It is still being investigated by the FBI,” Rollo said. “And we hope to be able to find the culprit and appropriate things happen.”
Rollo says law enforcement believes the threat is connected to a similar threat made at another Texas school on the same day.
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