hits close to home for some local college students after a threat of an active shooter at Lehigh University Sunday night as students were on campus studying for finals. It turned out to be a hoax ...
Unfounded reports of an active shooter that rattled Lehigh University ... “Swatting” is a term used for hoax reports that are meant to draw a heavy police response, including the tactical ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - An active shooter report at Lehigh University brought many police officers to campus late Sunday night. The report, which was deemed to be a hoax threat made by someone outside of ...
Lehigh University says a report of an active shooter on its campus in Bethlehem late Sunday was a hoax. The university tweeted a warning the community at 9:49 p.m. Sunday. “Report of an active ...
PUBLIC. SANTA FE POLICE CHARGING TWO STUDENTS FOR AN ACTIVE SHOOTER HOAX IN APRIL. ON APRIL 21ST, OFFICERS WENT TO NUMEROUS SCHOOLS IN RESPONSE TO A THREAT OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER. THROUGHOUT THE DAY ...
It started with a hoax active shooting call to local police ... officials said, not an active shooter. Still, the reports of gunfire "elevated the situation from a normal swatting response ...
ROTTERDAM – Several Capital Region school districts reacted Thursday to reports of active shooter incidents that ... information about a “False Hoax Phone Call.” “Today (March 30 ...
We were both standing on the St. John’s Preparatory School campus in Danvers where there was a hoax active shooter threat Monday ... from both the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire ...
Deputies determined reports of an active shooter at USF's Sarasota-Manatee campus was a hoax, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. (Shutterstock) SARASOTA, FL — Deputies determined that an ...
were also targeted with false calls of an active shooter. These calls were quickly determined by law enforcement agencies and their first-responders to be hoax calls," Florida Atlantic University ...
After police swarmed St. John’s Prep in Danvers on Monday for a report of an active shooter on campus, Massachusetts State Police did not find any gunman and confirmed that it was a hoax. While ...
SWATTING CALLS A 'CRUEL HOAX': Schools across US hit with dozens of false shooting, bomb threats "Swatting" calls attempt to deliberately draw a large police or SWAT team response with a fake report ...