GUNFIGHT. HOYT IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIED. NEW HERE AT FIVE. THREATS MADE ONLINE AGAINST SEVERAL SCHOOLS IN SAINT PAUL. AND TODAY, A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. OUR ROB OLSON JOINING US LIVE FROM THE CAPITAL CITY. ROB, WHAT HAVE INVESTIGATORS FIGURED OUT SO FAR? WELL, WHAT THEY'VE FIGURED OUT IS THAT THIS 12 YEAR OLD GIRL, LOCAL GIRL, IS THE ONE WHO MADE THE POST, ADMITTED TO MAKING THE POST HERE, AND THEY SAY THEY WERE ABLE TO TRACK THIS DOWN FAIRLY QUICKLY BECAUSE IT WAS A LOCAL PERSON. THEY COULD GO THROUGH THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO TRACK DOWN WHERE THE POST ORIGINATED. UNLIKE THREATS THAT SAY COME FROM OVERSEAS AND ARE HIDDEN IN LAYERS OF ENCRYPTION AND MULTIPLE SERVERS. BUT IN THIS CASE IT WAS LOCAL. BUT WHAT IT DID IS IT SPREAD A LOT OF FEAR THROUGHOUT THE STATE. WHEN THIS MESSAGE WENT OUT, IT SCARED A LOT OF PEOPLE. SAINT PAUL POLICE WERE INUNDATED WITH CALLS AS WELL AS SCREENSHOTS OF THIS SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT LISTED 22 SCHOOLS, MOST IN SAINT PAUL, THAT THE POSTER SAID THEY WERE GOING TO SHOOT UP AND THE FEAR SPREAD QUICKLY AND ON A WIDE SCALE. THIS WASN'T JUST LOCAL. I KNOW THAT THIS MESSAGE IS BEING SHARED ALL OVER THE PLACE. AT LEAST TWO OF THE SCHOOLS ON THAT LIST, BOTH OF THEM CHARTER SCHOOLS, HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE, ELECTED TO CLOSE ON THURSDAY. ANOTHER, THE HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY, REMAINED OPEN BUT ADDED VISIBLE SECURITY. THE DEVICE THAT SENT IT WAS LOCATED AND THE OFFICERS WENT DIRECTLY THERE TO SPEAK WITH THEM. SAINT PAUL POLICE, THROUGH EXPEDITED SEARCH WARRANTS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, TRACKED THE POST TO A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL IN SAINT PAUL. SHE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY THURSDAY MORNING AND CLAIMED IT WAS A PRANK. THAT JUVENILE ADMITTED TO SENDING THE MESSAGES. THEY DID NOT HAVE A DESIRE OR THE MEANS TO CARRY OUT THE THREAT, BUT THE THREAT IS TAKEN BY US VERY SERIOUSLY NO MATTER WHAT. SINCE THE SCHOOL SHOOTING THAT KILLED FOUR IN GEORGIA LAST WEEK, COPYCAT THREATS HAVE POPPED UP ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN A MESSAGE TO PARENTS LATE WEDNESDAY, NOTED THESE NATIONWIDE RUMORS THAT THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS THREAT IS CREDIBLE, WHICH IS WHY THEIR SCHOOLS STAYED OPEN AND THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT MANY OF THE MESSAGES BEING SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE COPIED FROM POSTS OUTSIDE THE SAINT PAUL DISTRICT. SAINT PAUL POLICE ARE STILL FIGURING OUT WHAT MOTIVATED THIS 12 YEAR OLD GIRL TO JOIN IN AND WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH WHY THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT. I THINK THAT IS THE QUESTION EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW IS, WHY WOULD YOU SHARE SOMETHING LIKE THIS? AND WE'RE STILL TRYING TO GET THOSE ANSWERS. SO SAINT PAUL POLICE HOPE THAT THIS REALLY DOES CALM A LOT OF THAT TENSION THAT THEY CERTAINLY FELT THROUGH ALL THE PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO THEM, BEGINNING YESTERDAY. ONCE THIS INVESTIGATION IS