Authorities were called to false reports of an active shooter on at least four Texas college campuses on Thursday.
The practice, known as "swatting," is geared toward drawing law enforcement to places where there is no threat. There were reports Thursday of swatting calls at Collin College in Plano, Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Galen College of Nursing in San Antonio, Tyler Junior College in Tyler, and Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.
There were other reports of swatting calls nationwide.
An Emergency Alert was sent to the Texas Wesleyan University community to shelter in place Thursday morning due to reports of an active shooter situation on campus. Fort Worth police responded, cleared the campus, and found no evidence of an emergency.
Texas Wesleyan officials said the call was placed by a scam number.
Around the same time, Plano police tweeted a "Code Red" alert, which said there was a possible active shooter at the Collin College campus at 2800 East Spring Creek.
Plano police said that they had a hoax call come into the 911 center at approximately 9:45 a.m. that a mass shooting had occurred at the Collin College Plano campus.
Similar calls for active shooters that were ultimately cleared came in regarding Del Mar College in Corpus Christi and Galen College of Nursing in San Antonio.
Tyler Police and Smith County 9-1-1 also got a similar report of a possible active shooter at Tyler Junior College, which turned out to be false.
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