Police strike teams swarmed Boulder City High School today after a person claiming to be a teacher falsely reported they were hiding from a gunman in the building, authorities said.
Boulder City Police dispatchers received the “spoofed” call at 9:09 a.m., and a school resource officer immediately initiated an “active-shooter response,” police said.
“In less than 90-seconds, strike teams consisting of multiple officers were deployed inside the school,” Police Chief Tim Shea said in a statement. “Our teams advanced throughout the building and found no evidence of any threat.”
Police said they later learned a neighboring school outside of Boulder City had received a similar call about the same time. That school was not identified.
The lockdown lasted less than 45 minutes, and officers have cleared the scene, police said.
Such “spoofing/swatting incidents” have been reported in school districts nationwide, police said. Spoofing technology allows a person to disguise their actual phone number from caller IDs.
“These threats are a crime and will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Shea said.