St. Pete College campus closes after threat

February 15th, 2008 | Category: Tampa Blog

St. Petersburg College received a non-specific threat to its Gibbs campus today dawn, prompting school officials to immediately evacuate the campus and shut the campus for the day.

An unidentified student, upset by a final grade he received in a science lesson, made several threats that he would do harm to the campus, but did not elaborate, school officials said.

“He said that he was unhappy and that he might come to

the campus and do damage,” said Amelia Carey, college spokeswoman. “Someone else called a tip line and said that the student had made potential harmful threats to campus.”

The tip came in at about 11:40 a.m. The Gibbs campus was immediately cleared, police were contacted and defense guards at other campuses were put on wide-awake, Carey said today.

– Cristina Silva, Times Staff Writer

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