Law enforcement officials wait outside Lake Cormorant Middle/High School Tuesday while the facility is searched for explosive materials.
Lake Cormorant Middle/High School was evacuated Tuesday after students reported a bomb threat.
A note written on a bathroom wall threatening a bomb would go off at 2:13 p.m. was seen by female students at Lake Cormorant Middle/High School around 1 p.m., according to a news release from DeSoto County Schools. Students reported the threat to school authorities.
School officials contacted the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department and law enforcement officials were on the scene within minutes, the news release stated.
The students were evacuated to nearby Lake Cormorant Elementary.
Bomb dogs and investigators from Desoto County Sheriff's Department swept the building, and found no evidence of explosive material.
"A bomb threat is a felony," Superintendent Milton Kuykendall said in the release. "Anyone connected with writing this threat will be prosecuted to the full extent the law allows."
