Officials have narrowed the location of the IP address to a “bloc of countries” outside the United States, but the IP address could “be a mask,” meaning the address could be from somewhere else. “They used the internet to be able to make the calls rather than a regular phone line,” she said. Provo police officers remained at the school throughout the day to talk with students in the hope of assuaging fears and anxieties.īesides making similar false reports about an active shooter, Koellner said, all the calls seemed to come from the same person, judging by the voice, from a male caller with a foreign accent.įurthermore, she said, all the calls came from the same phone number and the same internet protocol address. The call to Spanish Fork, according to city officials, described an 18-year-old student with multiple handguns who had fired weapons. and Spanish Fork at 9:53 a.m.Īll schools in Spanish Fork were placed in a precautionary lockdown as first responders from 11 agencies descended on the school. A call was made to the Provo Police Department at 9:45 a.m. Koellner said the calls about all the schools “trickled in” around the same time. The call about Ogden High came in at 9:31 Wednesday morning to Weber Area Dispatch, which handles emergency calls in Weber County. George, was also the target of hoax calls.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Washington County School District, which encompasses St.
According to law enforcement and other reports, the list includes Ogden High, Spanish Fork High, Provo High, Box Elder High in Brigham City, West High in Salt Lake City and three schools in Moab - Grand County High, Margaret Hopkin Middle School and Helen Knight Elementary. She wouldn’t name them, but said 13 schools in all across Utah were target of false calls about active shooters. “It’s definitely top priority,” Koellner said. The DPS’ Statewide Information and Analysis Center is teaming with the FBI and local law enforcement officials in the impacted locales on the investigation. Meantime, the probe to figure out who made the calls around Utah is moving ahead. Trauma teams, officials said Wednesday, would be made available to those still processing Wednesday’s events. “That being said, we will continue to remind students and school employees of the opportunities to receive support.” He and Luke Rasmussen, the district superintendent, visited the school Thursday as part of Tiger Esteem Week activities there “and the educators and students that I observed seemed to be highly engaged and in good spirits,” Bates said. Officials cleared the building, students went home early and on Thursday, Ogden School District spokesperson Jer Bates reported that students and staff seemed to be rebounding from the tense turn of events. In Ogden, the high school was placed on a lockdown after the call came in and armed police and SWAT officers scoured the facility while students and staff hunkered in classrooms.
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