No one was hurt, and the Salt Lake City bookstore was later given an “all-clear” by police.
Salt Lake City police respond to a reported bomb threat at The King's English Bookshop, at 1511 S. 1500 East on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.Utah drag queen Tara Lipsyncki has been hosting all-ages drag story time events at Salt Lake City bookstore The King’s English since June.
Lipsyncki was grabbing her keys and on walking out the door to her latest event Sunday morning when she said the shop’s owner, Calvin Crosby, called her to say the store had received a bomb threat. Lipsyncki immediately turned to her husband to relay the information, she said, and they pondered, “‘Is it sad that we aren’t phased anymore?’”
Salt Lake City police respond to a reported bomb threat at The King's English Bookshop, at 1511 S. 1500 East on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Salt Lake City police temporarily closed off 1500 East between Emerson Avenue and Kensington Street to investigate the threat, which Crosby said was called into police before shop staff showed up Sunday morning.as a “suspicious circumstance” and said a police K-9 team trained to detect explosive materials responded. By about 11:30 a.m., the team had given the building an “all-clear,” police later announced.
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