Call of shots fired at Northwestern graduate dorm was 'swatting' hoax, police say
by Rhonda Gillespie, Genevieve Bookwalter, Alex Nitkin and Brian Cox, Chicago Tribune
Mar 14, 2018
2 minutes
CHICAGO - A call of shots fired that sent scores of heavily armed officers to a Northwestern University graduate dorm Wednesday afternoon was apparently a case of "swatting," a false emergency designed to draw a large police response.
A caller reached the Evanston police from somewhere near Rockford around 2:15 p.m. and said he had shot his girlfriend at Engelhart Hall, just west of the main campus.
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