Utica Police Investigate Alleged Social Media Threat Regarding Donovan Middle School

UTICA, N.Y. — An alleged threat made from behind a 3×6-inch phone screen sent Utica Police into some students’ homes, looking for guns. “Part of that investigation was to talk to every student that was named, their parents, ensure that they did not have weapons in their home and could not carry out this threat,” said UPD Lt. Michael Curley. Because you can’t be too careful with children’s lives. This alleged threat was on Snapchat and targeted Donovan Middle School on Thursday. “It was reported that students were going to come there at some point and potentially shoot up the school. Obviously, based on the nature of the specific threat, and the threat to a specific mentioned school with some named students, we took it very seriously,” said Curley. And they learned it was personal. “We learned that in the community over the last couple of weeks, there’s been two feuding groups,” said Curley. “We’ve identified those groups; we’ve identified the parties therein and like we said, we’ve spoken to most of their parents and the students themselves. At this point, we do not believe there’s a tremendous amount of credibility to the threat.” Utica Police and the school district
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