Laurier lockdown lifted

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(Updated) A lockdown has been lifted at Wilfrid Laurier University’s campus in Waterloo.

The school has re-opened, but staff are not required to be in class or at work. School officials were tipped off this morning by the FBI and RCMP about a threat. The campus was locked down for approxiamately four hours.

Police say the threat was made in an anonymous post on the online forum 4-chan. It used similar wording as a threat made before a school shooting in Oregon.

The post, shared widely on social media says “some of you …are alright, don’t go to Laurier science building tomorrow.” The school says a “thorough investigation by law enforcement” led to the decision to reopen the campus.

Supt Pat Deitrich of Waterloo Police said it cannot be assumed that the threat came from someone looking for attention. “You have to do some investigation and the timing of this was, my understanding is, the university really needed to make a decision early in the morning whether or not, and at that point we didn’t have sufficient information to provide that as an investigating agency. That would make them comfortable to feel that there were no issues around continuing school as normal.”

There were only about 200 people on campus; this is a reading week with no regular classes.