[iceskater]

This was what school superintendents in Richmond based their decision to close the schools. They were asked by LE to keep it quiet. Per Mark Edwards, superintendent of Henrico County schools.

[Howlin]

Exactly. We had already heard this, but it's shocking to hear it out loud.

[aristeides]

Chris Core is still insisting that the VA counties closed their schools because the parents in the counties insisted. I think this must mean that VA law enforcement people leaked the text of the threat to children to people in their localities. And I suspect that the fact that the text of the threat was common knowledge in VA explains why Moose and the sniper investigation decided to make the text of the threat public nationwide.