College shooting threat: update

Suspect arrested in shooting threat at library.
(Image courtesy Bainbridge College)

Decatur Co. Sheriff Wiley Griffin told GPB News, that law-enforcement officials arrested a student suspect Tuesday night in the case of threats of a shooting attack at Bainbridge College in southwest Georgia:

"The person we arrested is Pamela McGriff, she's a 20-year-old black female. She's from Cairo, Georgia, and is charged with three counts of terroristic threats."

A written threat to “shoot the campus up” on Wednesday was discovered in a women’s restroom at the campus library Monday afternoon.

Griffin says that he does not expect further arrests in the case, although the elevated state of security will remain in effect throughout Wednesday, as a precaution.

"I think it's a very safe environment out there now; I wouldn't have any problem with anyone going to school out there today - none whatsoever."

Griffin added, "We feel very secure that this threat came from this one person,"

but would not confirm or deny that further arrests may be forthcoming in the ongoing investigation.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation local Special Agent, Mike Walsingham, is working with officials in the probe, Griffin says.

Campus (Courtesy Bainbridge College)

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Shooting attack threat against Bainbridge College

(Courtesy of Bainbridge College)

Bainbridge College officials are dealing with a threatened shooting attack against the school, allegedly planned to occur on Wednesday.

President Tom Wilkerson on Tuesday said that the school, located in Decatur Co. near the border with Florida, is "operating under caution." He said that the Decatur County Sheriff's Office is investigating, and that plainclothes deputies have been stationed on the main campus, as well as at the Blakely campus, and the Annex.

The threat was received on Monday afternoon, according to a statement by Wilkerson appearing on the school's website:

A message was discovered in the women’s restroom adjacent to the Library. The message threatened to “shoot the campus up” on Wednesday of this week. No individuals were threatened. We do not know if this threat is related to the earlier incidents with the fires.

"The fires" is a reference to several previous arson attempts in the restrooms, the school said.

Wilkerson instructed students to report "anything or anyone out of the ordinary" to campus security at (229) 493-0554, and at (229) 515-0811. Access to several college facilities has been limited, due to stepped up security, the statement said.

This report will be updated as further details become available.

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