NEWARK, Del. — The FBI confirmed that the University of Delaware was the target of a threat of violence to have taken place on campus at 10 a.m. Monday. Federal investigators found the source of the threat not credible.
Campuses throughout the Philadelphia area were already on alert after federal officials Sunday warned of a threat to take place on an unspecified campus at 2 p.m. Monday.
The two threats were not connected, Amy J. Thoreson, an FBI public affairs specialist in Baltimore confirmed via email. Thoreson said she could not add any other detail other than confirmation the University of Delaware was the target.
University of Delaware Police Chief Patrick Ogden said his office received word of the threat on the online forum 4chan.org around 9 a.m. The post warned people to stay off the college campus if they were in northwestern Delaware. A reply to the post noted there will be hundreds of people on The Green at University of Delaware at 10 a.m., Ogden said, noting his office contacted the FBI when the post was brought to his attention.
Federal agents tracked the source of the University of Delaware threat to a teen in Ohio whom they found to have had no real intent or capability of carrying out any violence in Delaware, Ogden confirmed.