{"id":394298,"date":"2015-09-11T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=394298"},"modified":"2015-09-14T07:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:36:30","slug":"lufkin-school-shooting-threat-dismissed-as-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=394298","title":{"rendered":"Lufkin School Shooting Threat Dismissed as Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-lights2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-lights2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"police-lights\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-394302\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN &#8212;  A mass shooting threat to all Lufkin schools has been dismissed as a hoax by the Lufkin Police Department. According to KETK, police say they have received almost 30 calls starting Thursday night and into this morning, threatening a mass shooting at Lufkin ISD on Friday, September 11th.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the Lufkin Police Department said: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any threat of violence &#8211; especially involving the safety of our children &#8211; is taken extremely seriously and investigated swiftly. These statements appear to be nothing more than rumors circulating Facebook and Twitter regarding all area schools.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they will continue investigating the threats, but do not believe there is a safety concern at this time. As a precaution, patrol has been increased around Lufkin ISD school zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN &#8212; A mass shooting threat to all Lufkin schools has been dismissed as a hoax by the Lufkin Police Department. According to KETK, police say they have received almost 30 calls starting Thursday night and into this morning, threatening a mass shooting at Lufkin ISD on Friday, September 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":394302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 05:44:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394305,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394298\/revisions\/394305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}