FBI identified juvenile suspects accused of making bomb threats to HBCUs

A graduation-themed printed mural is seen on the Howard College campus on July 6, 2021, in Washington. On Feb. 2, traditionally Black schools acquired bomb threats. The FBI has recognized six suspects.

Jacquelyn Martin, Related Press

Greater than a dozen traditionally Black schools and universities acquired bomb threats on Tuesday, the primary day of Black Historical past Month.

Six “tech-savvy” juveniles had been recognized by the FBI as suspects in these racially motivated threats, based on NBC Information.

• Officers mentioned these suspects gave the impression to be utilizing refined strategies to attempt to disguise the supply of the threats.

In response to Axios, Home Homeland Safety Chairman Bennie Thompson, who was briefed by the FBI, mentioned that federal and state officers will guarantee the security of every establishment affected by “this act of terrorism.”

• Howard College, one in every of 13 universities to obtain the bomb threats, was the primary to concern a shelter in place.
• “We’ve had these challenges earlier than,” Howard College President Wayne Frederick mentioned, per CNN. However “since I’ve been right here (as a scholar) in 1988, it has not been this widespread and likewise, I feel, this overt.”

Different universities that acquired bomb threats embrace:

• Alcorn State College.
• Coppin State College.
• Edward Waters College.
• Fort Valley State College.
• The College of the District of Columbia.
• Morgan State College.
• Kentucky State College.
• Xavier College of Louisiana.
• Philander Smith Faculty.
• Arkansas Baptist Faculty, per the metropolis’s mayor.
• Mississippi Valley State College.
• Jackson State College.

The FBI mentioned that investigating these threats “is of the best precedence for the Bureau and entails greater than 20 FBI subject places of work throughout the nation.”