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    Officers are searching Oxford High School after an apparent “clapping” incident.

    Caradoc Wyn Posted on

    The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is searching Oxford High School out of an abundance of caution over what investigators believe was a beating threat.

    An unknown caller from the Netherlands reported at 11:45 a.m. that a person with an AK-47 automatic rifle and a pipe bomb was in a bathroom and was threatening to shoot everyone and detonate the device, according to an OCSO press release.

    The sheriff’s office dispatched several OCSO cars to the school at 745 North Oxford Rd in Oxford Township as a precaution, deputies said.

    Investigators do not believe the caller’s threat is credible.

    Staff have secured areas of the school while police on scene search the building, Oxford Community Schools wrote in a message to parents on Thursday.

    Some students evacuated the building to reconvene with school staff at a nearby Meijer, in accordance with the district’s lockdown protocols. According to the email, parents can pick up their children at the location if they have received notification of their child there.

    School district officials asked parents not to call or come to school.

    A representative for Oxford Community Schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.

    “Every threat is fully investigated and we will always seek to hold those responsible accountable,” Sheriff Michael Bouchard said in the OSCO release. “We have even worked with partners in Europe to prosecute people in the past.”

    Thursday’s lockdown comes just before the three-year anniversary of a mass shooting at Oxford High School in 2021 that left four students dead and seven people injured.

    An Oakland County judge on Oct. 17 reprimanded the shooter’s defense attorneys for allegedly trying to circumvent court rules and extend the time allowed for them to file briefs withdrawing Ethan Crumbley’s guilty plea for resentencing .

    Local law enforcement recently responded to other false alarms at Metro Detroit schools, including a stroke that triggered a shelter-in-place order at Bloomfield Hills High School on Oct. 16.

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