READING, Ohio – Creepy clowns continue to close down schools across the country.

Hours after Colerain Township police in Ohio arrested a junior high student for making clown-related threats online, a woman reported that a creepy clown grabbed her by her throat on her porch and threatened local students, WCPO reports.

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The woman, who had recently undergone neck surgery, told police she was smoking on her porch around 4 a.m. Friday when a man dressed in a striped get-up with a red wig and white clown nose grabbed her by the throat and delivered a message.

The clown allegedly told the woman “I should just kill you now” and that “students and teachers (will) wish they were never born at the junior and high school today,” according to the news site.

Police took the woman to Bethesda North Hospital for treatment and contacted Reading Community Schools Superintendent Chuck LaFata, who canceled classes for Friday – the district’s homecoming day. School officials did not cancel a homecoming parade and football game set for Friday night, and a homecoming dance on Saturday will also go on as planned with extra security.

“We take all threats to the safety of our students seriously. We were especially concerned with the number of students who walk to school in the early morning hours and made the decision to close school,” the district posed to Facebook early Friday morning.

The incident follows numerous reported creepy clown sightings near schools, playgrounds and wooded areas across the United States in recent weeks, some that started as social media rumors or threats and others reported by folks who actually came across the clowns, EAGnews reports.

The incident in Reading came just hours after police arrested a junior high student Thursday night for terroristic threatening and inducing panic over online threats to harm students on Friday, WCPO reports.

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The news site pointed to other clown sightings in the region, including threats posted to Facebook at Fairfield City Schools, a report of a clown in the woods near Sharonville Elementary School, and unfounded reports of suspicious clowns in Boone County.

Also on Thursday, the Covington, Tennessee police department put Covington High School on lockdown for about a half hour over a social media post allegedly showing a creepy clown prowling school grounds, according to Fox 13.

That lockdown followed a very similar lockdown at Tennessee’s Dyersburg Intermediate School on Tuesday, though teachers spotted the clown in the woods there during recess and reported it to police, WBBJ reports.

Last week in Tennessee, a Coffee County student told sheriff Steve Graves that a creepy clown came out of a Summitville woods, slashed him on the arm, and ran away.

“An individual dressed in a red hoodie and a clown mask came running at him,” Graves told WTVF. “It’s people who have probably seen this on social media and thinks it’s funny.”

In Masontown, Pennsylvania a resident of Virginia Avenue reported a creepy clown in their back yard on Monday, and parents and students waiting at a school bus stop also came across a clown on Tuesday morning. A third sighting occurred Tuesday evening in Masontown German Park, KDKA reports.

The week prior, La Grange, Georgia police arrested four teens for making terroristic threats and disrupting public schools for allegedly threatening students of several specific schools on Facebook. The posts alleged a creepy clown in a white van was going to abduct children, WXIA reports.

Similar threats made by a Facebook user called “Flomo Clown” triggered a lockdown two weeks ago at two Alabama schools – Escambia County High School and Flomation High School, WKRG reports.

The threat that “it’s going down tonight” accompanied by crying and pistol emojis convinced police to investigate. Despite online reports that the “Flomo Clown” was roaming school grounds, police officials were unable to confirm an actual sighting.

Also two weeks ago, a Macon, Georgia mother called 911 when her children were chased from a bus stop by creepy clowns, according to the Telegraph of Macon.