Tennessee's Blackman High locked down after bomb threat call
The gist
Blackman High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was locked down after a bomb threat call, with two neighboring schools also secured.
The district calls it a likely fake 'swatting' threat, but parents were told to stay away.
How it unfolded
- Nov 10, 2026Blackman High School received a threatening call and was placed on lockdown, with police at the school investigating.
- Nov 10, 2026Rutherford County Schools confirmed Blackman Elementary, Middle and High Schools were all under lockdown; the schools sit next door to one another on Blaze Drive.
- Nov 10, 2026The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office asked parents not to come to the campuses and to head to a reunification area at the Murfreesboro Missionary Baptist Church on Fortress Boulevard.
Key terms
- swatting
- Criminal harassment in which someone falsely reports a serious emergency to trick police into responding to another person's location.
Source: Wikipedia