Snapchat messages threatened middle school shooting

Students at a Bronx middle school got Snapchat messages saying there would be a shooting at their school or two others nearby sometime this week, The Post has learned.

The threats went out around 8 a.m. Tuesday to students at Creston Academy in University Heights, cops said.

The messages also threatened shootings at the nearby Angelo Patri Middle School and Great Expectations School. But only students at Creston received the threats, cops said.

The students notified the principal about 30 minutes later. The principal, in turn, alerted cops, who reported the threats to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, which was planning to issue a subpoena to Snapchat, police sources said. Snapchat messages automatically delete after they are read unless they are saved.

Meanwhile, cops were questioning a Queens teen after students at the High School of Applied Science in Long Island City reported that he made similar threats over social media.

Callers reported to 911 and directly to the school that the 16-year-old had written on social media that he “wanted to bring a gun to school and use it,” police sources said.

Extra cops were sent to the school Wednesday morning. Cops also went to his house and talked to his mother, who told them he had been suspended on Monday for sending “an inappropriate card to his girlfriend,” the sources said.

Cops picked the teen up at his dad’s home in Manhattan and questioned him about the allegations.

“He being removed to the hospital as an emotionally disturbed person,” another police source later said.

There have been at least 40 threats against schools in the New York City area — including several “credible” ones — forwarded to the FBI since the deadly Florida shooting, authorities said Tuesday.