Abbeville High School receives active shooter hoax phone call

Around 12:20 on Thursday, the Abbeville Police Department received a phone call about an active shooter at Abbeville High School.
The complaint was deemed false, and the source is being investigated.
Abbeville High was placed on lockdown for about two hours. School buses began to arrive at AHS at 2:30 in time for school to end.
Abbeville Police Chief Mike Hadry and his officers walked through each classroom, searching for a possible shooter.
He later learned the phone call could be a national prank that had happened to other schools nationwide.
Other schools in the parish went on partial lockdown.
In Louisiana, at least 15 other schools received active shooter threats on Thursday.
The calls claimed there was an active shooter or mass casualties in classrooms. All reports were similar in nature — they come from an internet-based phone number with an out-of-state area code. None was real.
Law enforcement experts say it’s key to keep communication open between school officials and police during a shooting incident, even if it’s a hoax.
Swatting involves making a prank call to law enforcement to bring a significant police response to a particular address.
The hoax calls followed similar “swatting” attempts across the U.S. in the past few weeks as students begin a new school year. In addition, dozens of schools in at least 11 other states have dealt with shooting hoaxes since Sept. 13, according to the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO).