Threat leads to beefed-up security at Bellbrook HS

The superintendent of the Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District is describing this morning as "quiet," like any other Monday.

Bellbrook High School students are seeing an increased police presence today after someone scrawled a threat on a boys bathroom wall last week.

Officers will not say exactly what the threat said. But the written message indicated that something would happen at 1 p.m. The message was written in "tiny" print in pencil, according to reports.

"Kids and staff are going about their days," said Superintendent Keith St. Pierre. The threat was believed to have been written near the end of the school day Friday.

St. Pierre said attendance was slightly down on Monday.

The district's top official said police are planning to talk to students who appear on surveillance footage near the bathroom on Friday afternoon. 

Cameras are in every hallway of Bellbrook High School, St. Pierre said, and they cover every aspect of the hallways and the perimeter of the building. Parents have been notified.

St. Pierre said the district plans to have extra officers in the buildings all week.