Police investigate anonymous threats at Lakeville South, Lakeville North high schools

Officials south of the Twin Cities say they're investigating anonymous threats at Lakeville South High School and Lakeville North High School on Tuesday.

The threats sent both schools into lockdown. No one was hurt. 

The Lakeville Police Department says the school district's anonymous reporting system alerted them to the threats directed at Lakeville South High School shortly after 9 a.m. Additional threats were received, this time directed at Lakeville North High School, around 12:15 p.m.

Both threats indicated the possible presence of weapons, including firearms and explosives. 

Due to the immediacy and specificity of the threats at Lakeville South High School, law enforcement evacuated students and staff. First responders and K-9s cleared the school and did not find any weapons. 

"No one really knew what was going on so it was really scary," Eli Platt, a Lakeville South student, said. "First the alarms were going off, and we all were kind of like confused so we got into the hiding corner, and we really didn't have any information."

Platt said eventually an officer came into the classroom and they were evacuated to Trinity Church. Then, they were evacuated to Hosana Church.

While Lakeville South students were reunited with their parents at the church, police officers sped out of that school parking lot to Lakeville North High School. There, students were on lockdown for hours but were not evacuated.

Police say they did not find any weapons inside Lakeville North or in the surrounding area.

"In these scary times, not having contact with someone on the inside, not knowing what's going on. This is one of the worst feelings," Mohamed Farrah said.

Farrah's sister was texting him, telling him what was going on inside the classrooms.

"They shut down the blinds, closed the doors and the situation kept getting worse and dire until the point that they were hiding under the tables and corners away from any danger," Farrah said.

Last year, a boy was arrested for online threats of violence toward the school and McGuire Middle School.