Swatting call puts all campuses on lockdown in Georgia school district
WINDER, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Barrow County schools went into a soft lockdown Friday morning after a possible swatting call, the sheriff’s office said.
It’s the same school district that was the site of the Apalachee shooting, which left four people dead.
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According to Barrow County Sheriff Judd Smith, the district got a call at around 8:20 a.m. from someone saying they had placed several bombs and guns around campuses and were planning to set them off at a certain time.
They said the caller stayed on the line and eventually started laughing, while using racial slurs and telling them they’d been swatted.
Authorities are working to identify the caller.
It happened a day after Evans Elementary School got a spoofed phone call with a suspicious message that shut down outdoor activities for part of the day. After the call was determined not to be a threat, outdoor activities resumed.
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