The photo above shows the police presence outside Hopewell High School Wednesday (Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio)
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published March 31, 2023 9:50 A.M.  

(Hopewell Township, PA) Hopewell Police Chief Don Sedlacek made a statement to Beaver County Radio on the events that took place at Hopewell High School Wednesday. He said his department received a phone call from a male talking softly on Wednesday morning at 10:20 a.m. saying that 6 people were wounded at Hopewell High School. The chief said initially he and the SRO and other officers responded in 3-4 minutes after the call came in. The officers began a lockdown of the building and a safety sweep to locate threats or injured persons. “Once we concluded the sweep and no injured persons or threats were found, the students were escorted to safety, and there was no intruder found in the school”. At 10:24 a.m. the police were in the school and secured it and locked it down.
The all clear was given at approximately 1:30 p.m.
Chief Sedlacek said “there was a lot of controversy over the hoax and we believed that the action we took was necessary to be certain that there was no threat or no injuries”.