CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Emotions bubbled to the surface during last week's CMS school board vote, prompting someone to put their feelings down on paper.
"In the letter it's clear and obvious they are being targeted because of the way they voted on the school issue," said Milton Harris with CMPD's Criminal Intelligence Unit.
On Friday, board member Kaye McGarry received a threatening letter. On Saturday CMS board chairman Eric Davis received one as well.
"Basically the contents of the letter would give the average person concern for their personal safety," said Harris.
Both Davis and McGarry were outspoken proponents of closing E.E. Waddell High.
"I feel that as chairman, Davis said we need to make a decision tonight," Kaye McGarry said last Tuesday night at that controversial meeting.
NewsChannel 36 contacted McGarry on the phone Monday, but she would not talk about the threat.
She did say whoever wrote it referenced Waddell in the letter.
"We have it in the lab. We're looking at the forensics. Any forensics that may apply to documents we're applying that to these documents," said Harris.
Police are taking the situation seriously given that whoever made the threat took the time to learn where the board members live.
"We don’t know who wrote the letters. We don’t know their mental status," said Harris.
Davis contacted NewsChannel 36 late Monday afternoon. He, too, declined to discuss the threat.
When asked if he was worried about it he said, "No."
Police think the same person wrote both letters, and they are confident they will learn who that person is and why they made the threats.
