{
  "id": "2022-03-29-lorain-county-community-college-bomb-threat",
  "slug": "lorain-county-community-college-bomb-threat-2022-03-29",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Lorain County Community College",
    "shortName": "LCCC",
    "state": "OH",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "LCCC Alert",
    "enrollment": 10000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2022-03-29",
    "type": "bomb-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "headline": "Third bomb threat in six days forces another campus evacuation; no devices found",
    "headlinePublic": "Third bomb threat in six days forces another campus evacuation; no devices found",
    "summary": "Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, evacuated its campus on the morning of March 29, 2022, after its [third bomb threat in six days](https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/03/29/3rd-bomb-threat-lorain-county-community-college/). The threat arrived around 9 a.m. through the college's online student chat portal, and Elyria police conducted a building-by-building sweep that found no devices. The wave continued into April, with [a fourth threat closing all LCCC campuses on April 19](https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/04/19/another-bomb-threat-closes-lorain-county-community-college/)."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "9:17 AM EDT on March 29, 2022, per WKYC's account of the evacuation alert",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "Bomb Threat on Campus - Evacuate Immediately",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/lorain-county/lorain-county-community-college-bomb-threat-evacuation/95-cfb00d3d-6296-40d2-902b-4673466f741c",
      "sourceDescription": "WKYC, quoting the 9:17 a.m. alert posted by Lorain County Community College",
      "annotations": [
        "WKYC quotes the 9:17 a.m. EDT message ('Bomb Threat on Campus - Evacuate Immediately') as the alert LCCC sent out, posted to the college's Twitter account; the six-word imperative carries no location or threat detail.",
        "Cleveland 19 reported the threat came in around 9 a.m. through the college's online student chat portal, an unusual delivery channel for a campus bomb threat."
      ],
      "characterCount": 44
    }
  ],
  "context": "Lorain County Community College, the main public two-year institution west of Cleveland in Elyria, faced a cluster of bomb threats in spring 2022. The March 29 threat (its [third in six days](https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/03/29/3rd-bomb-threat-lorain-county-community-college/)) arrived around 9 a.m. EDT via the college's online student chat portal and prompted a full evacuation while Elyria police searched building by building and found nothing. The pattern did not end there: [Cleveland 19 News reported a fourth threat on April 19, 2022](https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/04/19/another-bomb-threat-closes-lorain-county-community-college/) that closed all LCCC campuses, making four threats in under a month. The episode mirrored the broader 2022 surge in bomb threats against U.S. colleges and illustrated the operational toll of repeated evacuations on an open-enrollment commuter campus.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The March 29 threat was LCCC's third bomb threat in six days, arriving via the online student chat portal",
    "Elyria police conducted a building-by-building sweep and found no devices",
    "A fourth threat on April 19 closed all LCCC campuses, totaling four threats in under a month"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "3rd bomb threat reported at Lorain County Community College - Cleveland 19 News",
      "url": "https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/03/29/3rd-bomb-threat-lorain-county-community-college/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Another bomb threat closes Lorain County Community College - Cleveland 19 News",
      "url": "https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/04/19/another-bomb-threat-closes-lorain-county-community-college/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Lorain County Community College shifting to remote learning after 3rd bomb threat in less than a week - WKYC",
      "url": "https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/lorain-county/lorain-county-community-college-bomb-threat-evacuation/95-cfb00d3d-6296-40d2-902b-4673466f741c",
      "type": "local-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "bomb-threat",
    "evacuation",
    "community-college",
    "ohio",
    "serial-threats",
    "emergency-notification"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-29",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}