After searching for a young woman who is “infatuated” with the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School and made threats just days before the 20th anniversary of the attack that killed 13 people, federal authorities in Denver announced around 1 p.m. ET that “there is no longer a threat to the community.”  According to several reports, the suspect, 18-year-old Sol Pais, is dead. Public schools in the Denver area were closed for nearly three hours Tuesday afternoon and again Wednesday morning as police searched for Pais.  All schools in the Denver area were urged to tighten security because the threat was deemed “credible and general,” said Patricia Billinger, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Safety. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI said Pais traveled to Colorado from Miami Monday night and bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition. Denver Public Schools said the decision to close campuses was in collaboration with other Denver metro-area school districts due to the ongoing safety concern. On Tuesday, some schools released their students after additional security was called in and canceled evening activities or moved them inside. “We always have heightened awareness close to high-profile anniversaries like this,” Billinger said.  The FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force issued a notice Tuesday describing Pais as “infatuated with (the) Columbine school shooting.”  The alert also said police who come into contact with her should detain her and evaluate her mental health. Sheriff’s spokesman Mike Taplin said the threats she made were general and not specific to any school. The Denver Post reported that a call to a phone number listed for Pais’ parents in Surfside, Florida, was interrupted by a man who identified himself as an FBI agent and said he was interviewing them.  Two teenage gunmen attacked Columbine on April 20, 1999, killing 12 classmates and a teacher. 

LITTLETON, Colo. —

After searching for a young woman who is “infatuated” with the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School and made threats just days before the 20th anniversary of the attack that killed 13 people, federal authorities in Denver announced around 1 p.m. ET that “there is no longer a threat to the community.” 

According to several reports, the suspect, 18-year-old Sol Pais, is dead. 

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Public schools in the Denver area were closed for nearly three hours Tuesday afternoon and again Wednesday morning as police searched for Pais. 

All schools in the Denver area were urged to tighten security because the threat was deemed “credible and general,” said Patricia Billinger, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Safety. 

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI said Pais traveled to Colorado from Miami Monday night and bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition. 

Denver Public Schools said the decision to close campuses was in collaboration with other Denver metro-area school districts due to the ongoing safety concern. 

On Tuesday, some schools released their students after additional security was called in and canceled evening activities or moved them inside. 

“We always have heightened awareness close to high-profile anniversaries like this,” Billinger said. 

The FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force issued a notice Tuesday describing Pais as “infatuated with (the) Columbine school shooting.”  The alert also said police who come into contact with her should detain her and evaluate her mental health. 

Sheriff’s spokesman Mike Taplin said the threats she made were general and not specific to any school. 

The Denver Post reported that a call to a phone number listed for Pais’ parents in Surfside, Florida, was interrupted by a man who identified himself as an FBI agent and said he was interviewing them. 

Two teenage gunmen attacked Columbine on April 20, 1999, killing 12 classmates and a teacher.