13 Investigates found there were 34 threats of planned school attacks last year at the Houston Independent School District, up from seven threats in the 2019-20 school year.
As they sat at their desks in lockdown, waiting to find out if their classmates had fallen victim to gun violence, students at Heights High School were part of a district facing an increase in threats of planned school attacks.
"Our officers arrived within minutes. We got a report of ten people shot, which was untrue. We didn't know it at the time," Houston Police Department Chief Troy Finner said. "Whoever made this call, we're going to trace it down and we're going to hold them accountable."Still, the threat of violence at schools is present across Texas and the U.S.
There were also 15,184 fighting incidents statewide during the 2020-21 school year. The number of fights during the pandemic are down from the 2018-19 school year, when there were 49,120 fights.At HISD, there are officers on every high school campus, but the district chief said weeks before school started he wanted more.
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