South Middle School was one of several schools in S.C. that had false reports of an active shooter.
LANCASTER COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) - School districts across the state of South Carolina were the targets of false school-shooting reports on Wednesday, officials throughout the state confirmed.
The FBI is calling this swatting. It is when someone calls 911 reporting a fake active shooter threat to get law enforcement to rush that area with resources. That is exactly what happened here in Lancaster County and two other school districts.
In the WBTV viewing area, districts in Lancaster, Chesterfield and Chester counties all had active-shooter reports called into 911. None of them turned out to be credible. Law enforcement and districts say no shots were fired and no students or school staff were injured.
That did not stop parents from coming to get their kids from South Middle. While school was not dismissed, the Lancaster County School District created a lane for parents to come pick up their kids and released those kids when the parents got there.
“I just came down here to get my kids. I got off work to come down here,” says one South Middle Parent.
South Middle School parents did not let anything get in their way of making sure their kids were safe. This South Middle parent left work to get her kids after hearing several different stories of threats against their school.
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