Threats against students who participated in a school walkout against gun violence on Monday morning are being investigated by the Loveland Police Department, according to a department spokesperson.

About 50 students from Thompson Valley High School walked out of school about 10 a.m. Monday in protest of gun violence in schools. The students were seen gathering near the intersection of Carlisle Drive and Taft Avenue, according to reports.

“They were out about an hour to an hour and half and they eventually made it back to class,” a school district spokesperson said.

The students will be marked absent for the time they were not in school, district officials explained. Parents have the ability to call and excuse their student, otherwise, it will be marked as an unexcused absence.

Loveland Police Department spokesman Chris Padgett said the situation is currently under investigation, but couldn’t provide any information about what the threats contained, how they were shared with students or who made the threats.

“While legitimacy has not yet been confirmed, no possibility is being dismissed. We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness,” Padgett said in an emailed statement.

He added that school security has been increased and that all complaints related to the threats are being monitored while evidence is gathered by the department.

The walkout comes days after two students were injured in a shooting at Evergreen High School. The shooter, identified by police as 16-year-old Desmond Holly, shot himself and later died, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

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