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Police Deem NEK Human Services Office Safe After Threat Of Shooting

After a caller threatened a shooting Wednesday, causing the evacuation of Northeast Kingdom Human Services in St. Johnsbury, police say they’ve determined there’s no ongoing threat to the social services office.

In a news release, Vermont State Police spokesman Scott Waterman said troopers responded to the office after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Northeast Kingdom Human Services “received a threat of gun violence against the facility through its answering service,” the release said.

With assistance from the St. Johnsbury Police Department, troopers evacuated staff and patients from the building and then searched it.

“No suspicious individuals or items were discovered in or around the building,” the release said.

Police later determined that the threatening phone call came from “outside the country” and investigators “do not believe there is an on-going threat to NEK Human Services personnel or patients,” the release said.

The threat came hours after a shooting at a social services office in San Bernardino, California in which police say 14 people were killed and 21 were injured.

Taylor was VPR's digital reporter from 2013 until 2017. After growing up in Vermont, he graduated with at BA in Journalism from Northeastern University in 2013.
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