GEORGIA - Students at three different Georgia universities were alerted Friday night to possible active shooters on campus. All three of those reports ended up being hoaxes, according to police. Now, students are feeling unnerved by the situations.
What we know:
At Clark Atlanta University, students received an emergency alert just before 9 p.m. after reports of a shooter near the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Atlanta police responded and issued a shelter-in-place order while officers searched the area.
Atlanta police said the callers even used gunshots in the background of a call.
The order was lifted around 11:15 p.m. after investigators confirmed there was no threat. Authorities called the incident a swatting call—when a false report is made to draw a large law enforcement response.