Hoax Shooting Calls Plague Texas Universities

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Texas A&M University's Health Science Center received a hoax call about an active shooter, which was deemed false by the police. This follows a trend of other hoax calls that came in on the same day to various universities across Texas. Law enforcement says these swatting calls are a dangerous trend that can have devastating consequences for all involved and can be charged as a felony.
- Texas A&M among series of statewide campus ‘swatting’ calls KBTX
- Texas Colleges, Police Respond to Rash of Hoax Shooting Calls NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
- Collin College, Texas Wesleyan targeted by hoax emergency calls The Dallas Morning News
- Collin College Plano Campus, Texas Wesleyan University among several schools to get hoax mass shooting call FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth
- Active shooter threat at Baylor University a ‘hoax’ KWTX
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