 Early Sunday morning the Johnson County School District received information about a potential school shooting threat at Johnson County Middle School. The district immediately contacted local authorities to begin an investigation. Yesterday we received very early in the morning a threat that was possibly concerning to us as a district and one of our schools. The first thing we had to do was establish if the threat was accurate and if it pertained to one of our schools and through investigation with people in our school district and with the Sheriff's Department we did determine that the threat was the initial threat was directed at our middle school and we stayed in contact all day yesterday with the Sheriff's Department and the Kentucky State Police until the situation was resolved. Appalachian wireless is all in on tag madness right now select devices get up to 750 off on the Appalachian advantage unlimited or nationwide makes a mesh plans with renewed or new lines plus trade in up to 750 off because we are you we are Appalachian wireless. The threat was determined to be credible and a thorough investigation was done to determine the perpetrator. We pretty much at that point turned it over to the local authorities to our Sheriff's Department. I would like to commend them Sheriff Scott Hazlett and one of his deputies Dave Adams. They did a fantastic job yesterday in handling this situation because once we determined that the threat was real and accurate they kind of took lead on the on the situation and through various interviews they determined that the persons Snapchat account had been hacked by another individual and that individual was taken into custody and and it just kind of proceeded from there. The school district wants to remind people to stay vigilant and if you see something of concern to contact the school district or the local authorities as soon as possible. Reporting for mountaintop news I'm Brianna Robinson.