LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles Unified School District announced it will reopen all schools on Wednesday after a threat was determined by authorities to be non-credible.
The district closed all its schools Tuesday after an email threatened violence to many of the more than 1,000 schools in the district -- particularly high schools. NBC Los Angeles reported the email came from an IP address in Germany.
Superintendent Ramon Cortines said there was a threat "to not one school, but to many schools in this school district." He said that threat involved backpacks and packages left at campuses, but he would not elaborate.
Every school was searched Tuesday and officials said they found no evidence to support the threat. Late Tuesday, officials announced the schools will reopen Wednesday.
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Authorities earlier said the threat was credible, but one law enforcement official told the Los Angeles Times that an investigation has since found that whoever emailed the threat was not "capable of carrying" it out.
"The preliminary assessment is that it was a hoax or something designed to disrupt school districts in large cities," state Rep. Adam Schiff said Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the threat Tuesday. The Times reported that officials had been made aware of the potential threat since at least Monday night.
"Southern California has been through a lot in the past few weeks," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said. "Should we put our children through the same thing?"
The district, the second largest in the nation, operates more than 1,000 public and charter schools in the Greater Los Angeles area with more than 640,000 students.
