New information on a fake threat against Lugoff-Elgin High School in Kershaw County. The threat on social media came from an account under the name of a student who is in special education classes at the high school. But he was the one who reached out to deputies, calling to tell them he didn’t make the threat.

“Somebody he was talking to in Hawaii already told him they were going to use his name to create a fake account and start making threats toward Lugoff-Elgin High School,” said Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan.

Officers showed up to the student’s home and confirmed there were no weapons or devices he could’ve used to make the threat.

“We get a threat like this on a school, we’re coming to your house. You better believe it,” said Boan. “From there we started tracking the account and the account did come back to Hawaii”.

They say the student is in chat groups online and his name has been used three or four times in the past to make similar threats.

“We feel that’s their way of getting even with him because they don’t like something he’s doing. They're basically cyber-bullying him and using us as a tool to do that,” said Boan.

So, they let parents in the district know quickly that there was no need to panic.

“A 15-year-old over 4500 miles away is probably not a risk to the school,” said Boan.

“Very frustrating because it puts everyone on edge and we’re doing everything we can to make sure our students are safe, our staff is safe and that we can educate our students to the best of our ability,” said Lugoff-Elgin High School Principal Corey Wright.

So, classes went on as scheduled.

“I think sometimes our kids are more resilient than we are as adults and they dealt with this in the best way I think they could in carrying out a normal day as much as they could,” said Wright.

Officials want to remind parents to keep an eye on their child’s social media use. They also want to urge teens to be cautious before they post or interact with someone they don’t know.