Steel Valley Schools On Lockdown Due To 'Credible Threat'
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MUNHALL (KDKA) -- All schools in the Steel Valley School District are on lockdown Friday afternoon due to a threat made in the community.
The Steel Valley superintendent's office released the following statement:
"Due to a credible threat of violence in the community, all the schools in the district are in immediate lock out. Students will not be dismissed until and/or unless an adult on their emergency card comes to sign them out. We are doing this for the safety of our students and your children. We ask for your patience during this emergency to get your children home safely."
"We were told on the announcements that there was a threat and that we were on extreme lockdown and that our parents could come and get us and then we could just go home," one student said.
"It was just frightening because they were never really this serious with anything before, so it was just a little scary," another student said.
No further details about the threat have been released.
There have been two shootings in three days in Homestead -- a woman was shot in the leg late Monday night and a man was fatally shot late Wednesday night.
KDKA-TV's Marty Griffin has been told there were subsequent threats following the shootings and one grandfather pulled his three grandchildren from Barrett Elementary School on Friday morning because of perceived threats.
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