Social Media Threat at Moses Lake High School Part of Trend Following Michigan Mass Shooting

(Moses Lake, WA) --Schools across Washington state are dealing with threats of violence against students. Police say a recent threat made against Moses Lake High School over Snapchat Monday night was not credible. Investigators found the same threatening post was directed at the Monroe School District in Western Washington last week.

As many of you have heard by now, a Snapchat post has been circulating around Moses Lake about a threat of violence that...

Posted by Moses Lake Police Department on Tuesday, December 7, 2021

It's the latest in a series of school violence threats that have been investigated following last Tuesday's school shooting in Michigan. Police actually arrested a 13-year-old Seattle boy on Monday for allegedly making a threat on social media to carry out a shooting against his classmates at Whitman Middle School. That was the fourth school violence threat at a Seattle public school in the last two weeks.