Police, staff ‘extra vigilant’ after threat found at MPHS

Published 1:30 am Thursday, September 27, 2018

MARYSVILLE — Additional police officers were at Marysville Pilchuck High School on Thursday, and student absences may be excused by parent phone calls, after a shooting threat was found in a bathroom earlier this week.

School administrators met with staff Thursday morning, and they were “reminded to be extra vigilant,” Principal Dave Rose wrote in a message to families. School was on normal schedule.

At about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, district officials learned of a handwritten message on a bathroom wall that said there would be a shooting on Thursday. The district shared that information through its website and social media on Wednesday.

On Oct. 24, it will have been four years since a shooting in the old cafeteria at MPHS left five freshmen, including the shooter, dead. Another classmate was badly injured and survived.