There was an incident at Grant Public Schools that required a lockdown for students on Thursday. Apparently a call was made to the Veterans Crisis Line and the individual stated he was walking into the high school with a gun.
Here is the statement from Grant Police Chief Jon Patterson: At approximately 11:55 am on 10/31/24, officers from the Grant Police Department were notified of an active threat at the Grant High School. The report, which came through a third-party crisis intervention line, was of an unknown male standing outside of Grant High School with an AR-15 rifle, preparing to enter the school. Officers responded immediately to the threat, and all Grant Public Schools were placed in Lockdown Mode for security. Upon arriving at the school, there were no signs of the reported suspect. No schools had reported any suspicious person entering their facility. Due to the nature of the threat, law enforcement officers initiated and conducted a thorough search of each school within the district. No threat was located, and after all searches were complete, the schools were released from the Lockdown. During the course of our investigation, we learned the original call into the crisis line came from an IP address which matched at least 13 other calls across the United States, which all occurred at the same time. In each of those incidents, the reported threat was the same, and only the name of the supposed suspect changed. A search of the IP address used in all of these threats showed the address originating outside the US. This incident is being classified as a swatting incident and we are working to get information to the Michigan Intelligence Operations Center (MIOC) and the FBI for further investigation. Swatting is a dangerous hoax designed to provoke an emergency response to a fabricated threat, typically involving serious crimes. We want to thank all of our GPS students and parents for their patience and understanding throughout a stressful situation today! The Grant Police Department was assisted on this incident by the Newaygo County Sheriff’s Office, Michigan State Police, Fremont Police Department, and Newaygo County Central Dispatch. Chief Jon Patterson
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