On September 29, a woman was attacked while on her porch while she was smoking. She claimed that a man dressed as a clown grabbed her throat and said "I should just kill you now..."[221] The victim also stated that he said that "some students and teachers would wish they were never born at the junior and senior high school today."[221] That prompted Reading school superintendent Chuck LaFata to cancel Friday classes in the area, prompting local private school Mount Notre Dame to close as well.[221][222] Also, a junior high student was arrested after making a clown-related threat using the Internet.[221]