Aspen – Classes at Aspen’s elementary, middle school and high school were canceled today after graffiti on a portable bathroom wall threatened an attack.
Workers at the Aspen Middle School construction site discovered the threat Thursday afternoon indicating an attack would happen at 8:46 a.m. today.
Officials said the threat was similar to one indicating that all Mexicans working at the Snowmass Base Village construction site at 2:15 p.m., May 4, would be shot. In that incident, police increased patrols and the time came and went without incident.
“It was similar in nature and I don’t think it was a coincidence to the Snowmass Village event,” said Jeff Lumsden, patrol director with the sheriff’s office.
Lumsden said the graffiti was a “racially biased” posting consisting of a racially motivated threat of violence, then two additional comments by what appeared to be separate authors, he said.
“It’s a sad time that we live in that you have to worry about these things,” said Diana Sirko, superintendent of Aspen Schools.
“We’re going to err on the side of caution.”
