State police are investigating allegations that a Keyser city police officer sent a local family a racially-charged text message.
Anthony and Samantha Lockett say in February they received a vicious text that threatened their home and their young children.
The Locketts say after they got the text they called the number back and got Officer Ernie Miller.
Investigators say the text was sent from a computer, not from a cell phone.
A spokeswoman for the Keyser Police Department says they're standing behind Officer Miller, and that there's no evidence to substantiate the Locketts' claims.
"I was shocked. I was surprised that anyone could write anything like that because that could be anyone's kids. I think it affects people more who have black kids or biracial kids," Samantha said.
State police say Officer Miller will voluntarily take a lie detector test next week. Anthony Lockett says he would do the same.
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