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Threatening notes rattle Harlem HS: ‘I am going to shoot the school up’

Cops are investigating two successive threats against A. Philip Randolph Campus High School, on W. 135 St. in Harlem.
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Cops are investigating two successive threats against A. Philip Randolph Campus High School, on W. 135 St. in Harlem.
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Police and school officials are searching for the source of two school shooting threats leveled against a Harlem high school.

A staffer at the 1,319-student the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School said a note found on a teacher’s desk Thursday said, “I am going to shoot the school up, you have been warned.”

On Friday, a note discovered in the girls locker room carried the same menacing message, the staffer said.

School officials said police determined the threats were not credible.

But students are worried.

“It is scary,” said Dipti Roy, 18, of Jamaica. “We come to school, we should feel protected. No one should feel afraid to come to school.”

A. Philip Randolph, which is located in a historic W. 135th St. building, was previously targeted with verbal threats on March 1 and March 27. Juveniles were arrested in both of those cases, police said.

City Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said the school is handling the threats properly.

With Laura Dimon