SALEM, Ore. – An Oregon student who allegedly threatened a shooting was suspended while police investigate the comments and school officials conduct a “threat assessment.”

North Salem High School Principal Cynthia Richardson sent a letter and phone message to parents Wednesday informing them that a student was removed from the school the day prior for making “inappropriate comments” to other students about guns and school shootings, KATU reports.

Salem-Keizer School District spokesman Jay Remy told KGW.com the student threatened the shooting a few days ago, and it was reportedly planned for Oct. 30.

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“The statements were made in front of other students so the school resource officer and school staff were able to begin working directly with the student,” Remy said.

Richardson told parents Wednesday that the incident “was reported to us on 10/28 and the appropriate due diligence occurred; students were interviewed, teacher was interviewed, campus (resource officer) was notified, student who made the comments was removed from school pending a threat assessment,” KATU reports.

“Today we had additional security at school as a precautionary measure,” she said.

School and police officials did not identify the teen, or detail what specifically was said. The student also has not been cited or charged with a crime, the Statesman Journal reports.

“If there are any consequences, we wouldn’t be able to share them,” Remy told the Journal. “We want parents to know the school is aware of it and cooperating with police to work directly with the student.”

The incident comes less than a week after three died in a shooting at Marysville High School near Seattle.

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In that incident, popular freshman football player Jaylen Fryberg – who was recently named homecoming prince – opened fire in the Marysville-Pilchuck High School cafeteria Friday, killing one girl and wounding four others, KGW reports.

“I got up to go throw away my garbage. I turned around and he stood up and he just started shooting the people at his table,” Alex Hatch, a student at the school and relative of Fryberg’s told the news site.

Students scrambled for cover while they said Fryberg, 14, stared down his victims before firing off shots from a .40 caliber gun.

“I heard six shots go off, and I turned and saw people diving under the tables,” said Isabella MacKeige, another student. “I thought, ‘Run!’”

State Sen. John McCoy told KGW the community was searching for answers as to why the student went on the shooting spree, but are coming up empty handed.

“What triggered him? That’s what we need to find out,” McCoy said. “Because from all we have determined, he was a happy-go-lucky, normal kid.”