False threat at Boulder City High among several in state Thursday

School districts and constabulary astir the state, including successful the Las Vegas area, reported hoax exigency calls of schoolhouse shootings today. 

Boulder City constabulary received a telephone conscionable earlier 8 a.m. that a shooter was astatine Boulder City High School, the metropolis said successful a tweet. Officers arrived “almost immediately” aft the telephone and recovered nary shooting, though the schoolhouse went into hard lockdown until constabulary deemed the menace unfounded. It was the second specified “swatting” call astatine the schoolhouse since December. 

Swatting is the signifier of making a malicious prank telephone making mendacious reports of a transgression to constabulary to get a ample fig of equipped officers — including tactical SWAT teams — to swarm a location.

“CCSD takes each threats and rumored threats seriously,” the Clark County School District said successful a connection today. “CCSDPD works intimately with instrumentality enforcement partners to analyse the root of fake menace calls and posts. As it is amerciable to marque terroristic threats, anyone who makes a fake menace telephone whitethorn look transgression charges.”

School and instrumentality enforcement officials successful Nye, Churchill, Elko and Douglas counties besides posted to their authoritative societal media accounts contiguous astir shooting calls and resulting lockdowns.

In Churchill County, Fallon constabulary sent each disposable officers to Churchill County High School aft receiving a telephone of an imminent shooting and locked down each six of the city’s schools. Elko County sheriff’s deputies responded to Elko High School “within minutes” of receiving a call. The Nye County School District posted an alert to its website that it implemented its "Stay-Put" procedures and the sheriff’s section had other patrols astatine schools passim the day.

In Douglas County, the schoolhouse territory locked down six campuses astir Gardnerville and Minden aft getting a telephone astir a shooting astatine Sierra Chef, a concern successful Genoa that offers cooking classes, from a idiosyncratic saying “that they were entering the ‘school and shooting everyone they see’ with an AR-15 rifle,” the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said successful a property release. Dispatchers heard gunfire dependable effects successful the background.

Deputies recovered nary indications of a shooting astatine the concern but arsenic a precaution, enactment respective country schools successful lockdown.

The section said this is the 3rd hoax study of an progressive shooting it has received successful the past month.

“We are moving with the Nevada Threat Analysis Center and the Nevada State Police to assistance america place the caller,” Douglas County Sheriff Daniel Coverley said successful the statement. “It appears they are utilizing a machine enactment to fell their recognition erstwhile placing the calls to our 911 center. This benignant of misuse of 911 puts the assemblage and the deputies responding astatine risk. It tin besides adhd disorder oregon origin our 911 halfway and responding deputies to question the validity of a existent incident.”

While it wasn’t wide wherever the calls originated oregon if they were a coordinated attack, Gov. Joe Lombardo tweeted that his bureau was alert of the galore reports “and we are actively moving with local, state, and national partners to respond to these incidents.”