(Riverton, WY) – The Riverton Police Department responded to Riverton High School for “an anonymous call of a person seen with a rifle,” on Monday morning, November 4, according to a post shared on the RPD Facebook page.
Scanner traffic overheard at the time by County 10 indicated that the alleged armed individual’s name did not match that of any student in the school’s system.
As a precaution, the school was placed on a temporary lock-down while officers searched the school, and Student Resource Officers on-scene determined that no threat was found, according to the post from RPD.
RPD also received information that several schools throughout the state had received similar false reports.
The post concludes by informing that no evidence relating to the threat was located at any Riverton schools, and a message sent out to parents states that “normal school functions have resumed.”
County 10 will update this post with any additional information if it becomes available.