Englewood schools involved in swatting hoax

Multiple Colorado schools targeted

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Englewood schools were among several in Colorado that were placed on lockdown on Feb. 22 due to reports of a shooting, which Englewood Schools Superintendent Wendy Rubin said ended up being a “swatting incident.”

“ e lockdown has now been released and sta and students are safe,” Rubin said in an email sent to families. “Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to a school or other place.”