Threats at McAlester High School being investigated

By Robin Dorner
Editor in Chief

Friday afternoon, a Facebook ‘rumor’ was circulated about Oklahoma’s McAlester High School LGBT students being “threatened with violence.”

The post went on to say, “The wrestling team started a petition to shut down the GSA [Gay Straight Alliance] and openly spoke of slitting throats or shooting them up.”

However, The Gayly spoke with McAlester campus police officer Chuck Campbell. He said they had also received reports of these Facebook notes and had messages being sent in to them. School officials are being questioned of the validity of these allegations.

“There are no active threats to any students, but we are investigating this information we have received about these allegations,” said Campbell. “The school was never on lock-down.”

Campbell said the wrestling team was not even at school yesterday. They were away at a wrestling meet.

“We take all threats to students very seriously,” added the school officer.

The Gayly - 2/20/2016 @1:16 PM CST