A hoax emergency call at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville Wednesday prompted a police presence and panic from parents and students who were worried about a reported shooting, but there was never a shooter or an active threat.
NBC 5 Investigates found Wednesday’s swatting incident is just one of the scores involving Illinois schools this year.
Earlier this year, the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that they field approximately ten reports of school-swatting, every month, in the Chicago area. That rate would mark a 42-percent increase in school-swatting calls here, just in the past year. Friday, February 10, 2023 – An apparent swatter called in a threat to Carl Sandburg High School in southwest-suburban Orland Park, where students were put on “hard lockdown.”
Monday, February 27, 2023 – School officials evacuated Chicago Bulls College Prep high school on the near west side, after someone called in a bomb threat in the morning. The school had received a similar call back on May 3Tuesday, February 28, 2023 – Northwest-suburban Elgin public schools received what was later described as an “unsubstantiated threat.” Officials kept all schools open, with no lockdown.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 – Twenty-one schools – including Whitney Young Magnet School in Chicago and East High School in Rockford -- were all hit in one morning with calls reporting an active shooter. This included downstate schools, including Carbondale Community High School, Marion High School, Granite City High School, and Mount Vernon Township High School.
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