BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - Law enforcement responded to a false shots-fired call at Beaufort High School on Wednesday.
The FBI is now investigating the false claim in Beaufort as well as several other false claims across South Carolina.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, Beaufort Police Department and other emergency agencies responded to Beaufort High on Wednesday morning. The school was cleared just after 11 a.m. after first responders found no victims and no shooter.
Similar fake shooting calls were reported at at least 12 other schools across the state. No shooters or victims have been found at any school.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster said some of the hoax calls could be coming from other countries. The South Carolina Attorney General tweeted about the false reports:
The Beaufort Police Department received the active shooter call just before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. The chief of police says officers were inside the school within three minutes and at one time, there were over 40 officers inside Beaufort High.
Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner was asked how they can deter this kind of thing from happening moving forward.
“We identify those that are responsible, and we put them in prison and we’ll remove their technology access,” he said.
The Beaufort Police Department chief was asked how communication with parents went throughout the morning.
“Being a parent myself, the information wasn’t out soon enough, but I mean we couldn’t do it any quicker and it’s...
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