MASON, Ohio —

At least three people are accused of so-called 'Zoombombing' on a panel held by the Mason High School Black Student Union on Friday prompting a police investigation.

Mason City Schools' public information officer sent a letter out to families explaining what happened during the panel. She said while a panel was being held on the Black experience in Mason, a hateful Zoombombing event happened where people intruded on the Zoom meeting and are accused of using profanity, gory video images and a racist slur.

Black Student Union leader ended the Zoom session quickly and sent out a new link to the panel's participants.

"It's disturbing and it should be disturbing to all of us," said Superintendent Jonathan Cooper. "This was an event that was an attack on the values that we hold up here. It was a racist act and it was something that attacked our students."

After the incident, the public information officers worked with the Southwest Ohio Computer Association to learn more. They said the attack was coordinated by at least three people.

The public information officer said the IP addresses of the unknown participants who were likely the Zoombombers were from other parts of the country and included several international addresses.

Dr. Littisha Bates who moderated the panel and has three children in the district said the district's initial response was not adequate. The district initially issued a brief statement calling the incident "disturbing" and asking anyone with information to come forward.

"I've talked to students. I've talked to other parents, and we all sort of had the same feeling," said Bates. "That we didn't matter enough for you to issue a strong enough statement."

On a virtual call Monday, Cooper acknowledged the district's initial response should have been better.

"We were trying to move quickly, and sometimes when you're moving quickly, you don't have the perfect response and that's something I apologized to the students and families today about," he said. "At the end of the day we do stand up against racism, we do support our students and stand with them and we do not tolerate acts of hate in our district."

Students who were a part of the Black Student Union were connected with support to process Friday evening's attack.

"Our heart breaks that an important forum intended as a safe space for members of our Black community to share their experiences was compromised. Moving forward, all school-sponsored virtual events will require an online registration in order to try to prevent something like this from happening in the future," the release from the public resource officer said.

"We can talk to you all day about the experiences that we have of racism and discrimination, but what better evidence then to have the Zoom panel talking about our experiences as Black folks in Mason be racially bombed," Bates said.

Authorities are still investigating.

LA JOLLA, Calif. (KGTV) -- In 2019, a UC San Diego student started a website and business to fulfill what was originally a personal need. But now, the young entrepreneur is catering to hundreds of students on campus.

When Jaida Day moved from Los Angeles to La Jolla to attend UC San Diego in 2018, she immediately noticed a problem.

"I would ask around, 'Where is the nearest beauty supply?' and they would say, 'It's 30 minutes away from campus, driving,' and I'm a freshman, and I'm like, 'I can't do that all the time! I need these products right now,'" Day remembered.

To maintain her beautiful braids, the 20-year-old needed to either get a $40 Uber ride to get two products 30 minutes away or stock up when she went back home.

The university, which according to 2019 statistics, has a 2.9% African American undergraduate population, did not have the Black beauty products Day needed on campus. So the Math and Computer Science major took matters into her own hands.

"I'm like, your local beauty supply, that's what I like to tell people," Day laughed.

In 2019, she opened up a pop-up shop every other week at the campus Black Resource Center. But since the pandemic, she shifted operations online to a website she created called Black Beauty Near You.

"You add to your cart, I email you what my availability is, I package your order, and give it to them," Day said.

Her online shop spread by word of mouth, and now, her dorm room has become a stock room. She serves hundreds of customers like 21-year-old Sociology, Law and Society major, Kayana Hudson. The Compton native said the products in the student store just weren't cutting it.

"Honestly, it saved my life. It gives students access to Black hair care on campus," Hudson said. "We have Pantene products in the market, but I need my Mielle sometimes."

While Day is proud of her business, she does not want it to last forever. She hopes her business inspires the school and other college campuses to cater to a more diverse student body.

"I hope that by the time I graduate, Black Beauty Near You is not going to be necessary on this campus anymore," Day said. "That we will have what we need in the markets on campus. That would be lovely. That would be the goal."

This story originally reported by Rina Nakano on 10News.com.