No Arrests in Graffiti Cases at Strongsville High School

Police are still looking for the students who disrupted classes at Strongsville High School the week with two graffiti threats.

Police Chief Jim Kobak said Thursday afternoon that no suspects are in custody in either incident.

On Wednesday afternoon — two days after a bomb threat scrawled on the outside wall of the high school canceled classes at the high school and elementary schools — school officials found someone had written a message in a girls' restroom, threatening to bring weapons to school on Thursday.

Kobak said the department's school resource officer and school officials immediately launched an investigation and determined there was no credible threat.

School was not canceled on Thursday, but classes were held with "a strong police presence," Kobak said, including officers around the perimeter of the property, in the hallways and outside the building. 

"Everything went smoothly," Kobak said. "The police presence, I believe, calmed the situation."

A number of parents said on the Strongsville Patch Facebook page that they kept their kids home from the high school on Thursday because of the threat.

On Monday, school officials decided to send students home while police swept the school after graffiti on the wall said a bomb would go off. 

Elementary schools were also closed because the buses were needed to take home the high school students.

Anyone with information on either incident can call police at 440-238-7373 or text the keyword TIPSPD to 847411, followed by the information.