Valley police address surge in school threats [Video]

“It’s getting a little too close to home,” Maureen Nicholson, a Buckeye parent, said. “I want to make sure my children are being protected and safe at school.”

Liberty Elementary School District partnered with West Valley law enforcement agencies on Tuesday evening to explain how they investigate these threats.

“It’s a big puzzle. We work it very aggressively,” Liberty Elementary School District Governing Board President Michael Todd said. “It’s immediate phone calls from the police departments, from our staff, back and forth conference calls to start fleshing out the system, finding out if this threat is real, if it’s not real.”

The Buckeye Police Department said it received over 300 reports from concerned citizens about threats of school shootings last week.

Chief Bob Sanders said the main threat started online in Ohio, but was reposted and modified to Arizona schools.

None of the posted threats turned out to be true, …