No threat found at Cary middle school after students, staff evacuated

Alston Ridge Middle School in Cary was evacuated Wednesday due to a bomb threat that was later determined to be hoax.

The online threat referenced a potential bomb on campus, according to Cary police.

Students and staff were safely evacuated from the building at 7833 Fussell Ave. before 12:30 p.m. and school officials were working to reunite families.

Sky 5 flew over the school at 12:45 p.m., where hundreds of children were waiting on the athletic fields for their parents to pick them up.

Detectives and police K9s were inside to search and clear the building. At 1:30 p.m., the building was deemed safe to enter, and the staff and students who remained at the school were allowed back inside the building.

The school will dismiss at 3 p.m. as usual.

The school sent this message to families Wednesday morning:

We have discovered that someone has posted a bomb threat to our school in a Google document. Out of an abundance of caution, we are evacuating the building and moving to our fire drill locations while law enforcement and security officials investigate the threat and determine that the building is safe.

Parents who wish to pick up their students should take Fussell Avenue and follow carpool procedures. There will check-in sites set up to expedite the process.

The threat is one of dozens made against North Carolina schools in recent months.

Most recently on Tuesday, a parent called to threaten C.C. Spaulding Elementary School in Durham, which went on a brief lockdown. The same day, five juvenile petitions were filed for an incident earlier in May when several students threatened Chatham Middle School.