PAWTUCKET, R.I. – Police in Pawtucket want school kids and their parents to know that Bozo the clown won’t be shooting up their schools.

In a recent Facebook post by a clown who calls himself “Bozo Sullivan” sparked a police investigation this week, and other rumors of creepy clowns in Pawtucket have residents on edge, but police chief Paul King is reassuring the community there’s nothing to worry about, The Valley Breeze reports.

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The person behind the Bozo Facebook account claims “butcher at meat cutter” as an occupation and says he/she lives in Pawtucket. A screenshot from the now-deleted account shows someone asking him if he planned to shoot up Goff (Junior High), to which he responded, “Tolman” (High School). What about Goff? asked the questioner. “Goff is too boring,” he responded.

King told The Providence Journal the department also received reports from comments on a Pokemon Go message board that a machete-wielding clown chased people from Slater Park on three occasions a week ago, a claim that was repeated on Facebook.

Other reports claimed that clowns were lurking near schools on Monday.

King contends police investigated all of the reports and none can be substantiated.

“We haven’t found anything that indicated these ever took place,” he said. “We have nothing that indicates that these clowns have been sighted in Pawtucket.”

Public Safety Commissioner Antonio Pires said the threats to local schools prompted officials to take precautionary actions to keep kids safe from Bozo.

“We took the threat seriously, but nothing occurred,” he said. “Monday morning, we deployed extra officers at these two schools, just to bring some comfort to parents and children.”

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In a message to parents Monday evening, police said “it does not appear the social media messages were credible,” and they’re “working with the State Police to identify the source of the messages.”

Bozo Sullivan’s Facebook account, meanwhile, has been deactivated.

The Pawtucket threats are the latest in the creepy clown hysteria sweeping the U.S. that’s included numerous online threats against students and schools that have convinced officials in multiple states to put schools on lockdown or cancel classes, EAGnews reports.

Aside from the online threats, creepy clowns have also been spotted lurking in the woods near playgrounds, schools and other areas children frequent, with some reports of them attacking kids or attempting to lure them with candy and money.

Philadelphia schools on Sunday called the Department of Homeland Security after a slew of clown-related threats against numerous private and public schools over the weekend, the Philly Voice reports.

The Reading, Ohio school district closed schools on Friday after police arrested a local junior high student for making creepy clown threats online and a woman reported a clown grabbed her by the neck on her porch, on the same day, according to WCPO.

Last 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 last Tuesday, though teachers spotted the clown in the woods there during recess and reported it to police, WBBJ reports.

Two weeks ago 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.

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

Also three 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.