NEPTUNE NEWS™ Teen Chick Travels To Colorado From Miami, Armed With Shotgun, Obsessed With Columbine Massacre
Officials secured schools across the Denver area Tuesday as the FBI and local police hunted for a woman “infatuated with (the) Columbine school shooting” who had traveled to Colorado the night before, made threats and was considered armed and “extremely dangerous.”
Sol Pais, 18, who traveled to Colorado from Miami, was believed to be in the Denver-Littleton area after purchasing a pump-action shotgun as well as ammunition after leaving Denver International Airport, said Dean Phillips, special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, during a Tuesday night news conference.
“This has become a massive manhunt,” Phillips said.
Authorities confirmed it was her presence that triggered lockouts — outer doors are bolted, but classes continue as normal — first at Columbine High School and more than 20 other Jefferson County institutions, then dozens of other schools across the wider metro area.
Late Tuesday night, Cherry Creek Schools announced that “all schools will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, April 17 due to safety concerns related to a credible threat against schools in the area.”
The district, on Twitter, said all activities and athletics are also canceled. Employees were told not to report for work. A short time later, the Douglas County School District also announced that it will be closed on Wednesday and that “no employees are to report.”
Most other school districts also announced they would be closed on Wednesday, with before- and after-school activities also canceled.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader, who was with the sheriff’s office when Columbine happened, said the incident has opened wounds.
“We take these threats seriously; it’s certainly not the first threat that we’ve had involving Columbine High School,” Shrader said at the Tuesday night news conference. “This opens a wound, especially on anniversary week for those families who are most deeply impacted by this.”
Those impacted includes people across the country, Shrader said.
The threats came just four days before the 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, during which two students shot and killed 12 of their classmates and a teacher.
