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Police Investigating Past Student for Social Media Threat Against Wagoner High School

Updated 11:40 a.m.

Police have talked to a person named in a social media threat that led Wagoner Public Schools to close Friday.

A former student whose name has not been released made the threat, which referred to planning a shooting at Wagoner High School.

Wagoner police searched the individual's home and did not find any weapons. He has not been arrested and denies making the post.

Wagoner Police Chief Bob Haley said the person also made a bomb threat against the high school in the past when he was a student.

That threat was referred for prosecution. Haley said police did not find he had the ability to make a bomb.

Technology Director John Aldridge posted on the district website shortly after 6:30 a.m. that due to the severity of the threat, administrators decided to close all schools.

According to tweets from Sequoyah and Mannford school accounts, a wrestling tournament scheduled for today and tomorrow at Wagoner High was also canceled.

Matt Trotter joined KWGS as a reporter in 2013. Before coming to Public Radio Tulsa, he was the investigative producer at KJRH. His freelance work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and on MSNBC and CNN.