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Watauga High School placed on brief lockdown following online threat

School officials report extra officers are at school as a precaution.

WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. —

Watauga High School was placed on a brief lockdown after school officials investigated an online threat. 

According to Watauga County High School the online threat of violence forced the school to go on lockdown as a precaution while law enforcement investigates. 

Schools officials said the tumors of a threat of violence were investigated and now dispelled. School is now operating as normal. 

Stay with NBC Charlotte for the latest on this developing story. 

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