Colleges across the country deal with shooting hoaxes as classes resume

At least half a dozen universities across the country welcomed students on the first day of falls on Monday with track warnings on any armed men on the campus.

In almost all cases, the police and the administrators said that the reports were hoax or brewing calls, that is to say at this time that someone uses temporary mobile phone numbers and applications on the vocal bakery to create ravages. Some campuses simply declared that no evidence of a shooter or violence had been found.

The reports were sent to students of the University of Arkansas, Colorado State University Boulder, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, the University of New Hampshire and Northern Arizona University, according to student alerts and school declarations.

In addition, according to campus officials, the University of Southern Carolina received two active shooting reports at the Thomas Cooper library in Columbia on Sunday evening, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga received an active call at the hoax on August 21, and the University of Villanova near Philadelphia received two false shots of reports during the orientation of the first year.

The University of Arkansas canceled lessons on Monday after determining that “active threats” reports could not be confirmed. “Students are free to leave the campus for the moment if desired,” said university police.

The Kansas State University described a false report on Monday on its Manhattan campus as “similar to other strike reports in universities across the country”.

Police at the University of South Carolina said in a statement on Monday that the two false reports on Sunday evening seemed to have been made by the same man and that they sparked a massive response which included “mutual aid” or officers of the surrounding communities.

“The two calls were launched by an unknown man and included a background noise that imitated the shots,” the police said.

The University of Northern Arizona said in a statement that an appellant had pointed out a shooter on Monday on the Cline Library on his Flagstaff Mountain campus, triggering a response which included the Flagstaff police, the Sheriff deputies of Coconino County and state and federal agents.

“The report was determined to be a hoax, and at no time was there an active threat to the NAU community,” the university said in a statement. “An investigation is underway in the false report, with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

An FBI spokesperson said the office was aware of many of the reported incidents and helped investigations.

“The FBI continues to work with national and local partners to investigate the brewing canopies, but cannot say at this stage whether the incidents are connected or not,” said the office.

Some of the first strike incidents in the 2010s have involved false shooting reports from celebrities, and in recent years they have developed to include politicians and institutions. The FBI has created a national database to follow these false calls.

Last year, the authorities allegedly alleged that a teenager of California had made hundreds of brewing calls which aimed historically black colleges, secondary schools, houses of FBI agents and a Florida mosque in a can that he finally admitted.