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SnooEagles9747 t1_je5d4w2 wrote

CMU has issued an alert to all students to avoid the area. Some classes have been canceled. Their (CHS) school sirens were going off, but no info from within the high school that I know of, yet.

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TheFaceo t1_je5dtax wrote

My little brother is inside the school and texted that he is ok, it seems at the moment that no shots were fired.

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dockellis24 t1_je5e6b1 wrote

The mods are prob still stuck on the parkway

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Ok-Ad-5404 t1_je5evqj wrote

I’ve been listening to the scanner all morning. A Central Catholic student called UPMC Police who then called regular Police stating that there were “6 people shot in a second floor bathroom.”

Police responded and found no active shooter or victims, however they are locking down and evacuating as a precaution.

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carols10cents t1_je5f5mo wrote

Congrats you just made it worse by starting yet another thread

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_je5gbml wrote

Replying to ScareJessica2Death (#2,450,511)

Probably isn't a cchs student. Seems to be happening at multiple high schools and why would a central Catholic student call? UPMC police UPMC doesn't even patrol Central Catholic and anyone in a real active shooter situation would just call 911. This sounds like some sort of internet swatting thing.

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jdtomchick t1_je5qqdo wrote

This was reported at multiple schools across the state, at least all the way to central pa. Seems like a widespread hoax

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_je5rz74 wrote

The one good thing about this megathread is that it finally killed the train derailment one.

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CARLEtheCamry t1_je5v5bn wrote

Hopewell students are released. If a parent isn't available to pick them up, they're being bussed back to their schools (they consolidated a bunch but not all kids at Margret Ross)

“The HS students are being moved to the Hopewell Shopping Center to be bussed home immediately, and all HS drivers will be allowed to return to the HS to pick up the cars and drive home.

“All schools are currently in lockdown. Buses will take the HS students home and return to the Hopewell Shopping Center plaza to pick up the Junior High School students for dismissal. It is expected that the JHS will be on buses departing the plaza at 1:15-1:30pm and will return students home at that time. For families wanting to pick up their JHS child, all students will be moved to the shopping plaza. Please stay in your car and be positioned in the fire lane heading from Empire Palace restaurant towards Kuhns with passenger doors on curb side. Kuhns will be the front of the pickup line.

“All elementary schools will depart school on regular buses at the regular dismissal time for childcare purposes. Elementary families will be able to pick up students if they desire to do so upon reading this notification. However, buses will operate as under regular conditions for elementary only.”

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333scorpio t1_je5wg7e wrote

Bethel Park sent out a message as well. All safe and a police presence at each school.

While it could be some asshat in a basement, I can't help but speculate Russia, China, Iran, etc could be "terrorizing" us with this crap.

Stay strong and resilient.

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redmegg t1_je5wp53 wrote

Pitt locked down all of its buildings until it was confirmed a hoax. I got most of my information from @ACNewsAlerts1 on twitter and wpxi.com

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CompetitionDue9117 t1_je5xspq wrote

i go to oakland catholic. it was a fake call and i have never seen such large guns in my whole life held by police.

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CC-1112 t1_je5z9ar wrote

False alarm, hoax across the diocese of Pittsburgh.

We are on lockdown but that's it

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sputzie88 t1_je62b8j wrote

I am very relieved this was a hoax but I hope it will cause more people to speak up and demand better gun control. No one should be constantly on alert for this to happen to them, especially kids! Maybe that was the reasoning behind the swatting- making a larger population experience the tiniest fraction of what that horror is like. Doesn't excuse it but what the hell will it take for us to value lives above weapons?

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dehehn t1_je6559q wrote

Replying to jdtomchick (#2,452,556)

Such a shitty thing to do.

I was doing wedding prep today and our florist came out of the backroom crying after taking a call. She had heard the active shooter reports and had to leave to go pick up her kid.

Even if it was a false alarm it terrified everyone involved. So some asshole can have some lolz.

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bethskw t1_je66es3 wrote

North Allegheny sent an email to parents saying they know about these hoaxes and that they are hoaxes (NA was not among the schools involved) but that as a precaution they are keeping the schools in “secure mode” to the end of the day. Classes going on as usual but nobody is allowed in or out.

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TacoBean19 t1_je67s81 wrote

My brother goes to sci-tech which is close to central catholic and he told me he is fine, all off Pittsburgh schools were on lockdown since about 1:00 today, but schools in Oakland were on lockdown much earlier

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Infamous-Drawing521 t1_je6840f wrote

Replying to CompetitionDue9117 (#2,453,993)

As a central Catholic student, I also agree. Easily the scariest moment of my life. I was in the library and they made us walk out with our hands on our head with guns pointed at us. I feel the most for the teachers, they were devastated. Some teachers and students were take into interrogation if they weren’t in a classroom when authorities went into the building. Thank god nothing happened.

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tesla3by3 t1_je6b7o5 wrote

Replying to PaPaMcGin (#2,453,614)

In the days of social media things like this don’t require any sophistication at all. Someone in Nebraska sees a tweet about it happening in Pittsburgh and decides to do the same thing

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CARLEtheCamry t1_je6dllf wrote

Replying to jdtomchick (#2,452,556)

It was done stupidly too. For Hopewell, the call went to Aliquippa PD. The post office is in Aliquippa so the school has Aliquippa in the mailing address - even though we have our own police force. HQ right next to the Jr. High none the less.

No one actually from Hopewell would have made that mistake. Whoever did this just googled it and guessed.

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CARLEtheCamry t1_je6e7pa wrote

Replying to PaPaMcGin (#2,453,614)

Yeah I know I may sound like I'm wearing a tin foil hat but thoughts go to the Russians or Chinese trying to stoke unrest in the US.

It could go either way. School shootings start the debate about gun control which divides the nation. False alarms like this are just fuel to the fire. One of the first comments I heard muttered when I arrived on scene was "this is why we need to give the teachers guns".

Which, in fairness it was a emotionally charged situation because we had no idea what was going on, and people were just running their mouths.

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AlexanderPriceMusic t1_je6elbx wrote

Seems like it’s a widespread threat. My wife’s elementary school was on lockdown this morning in Cambria County. I teach at Duquesne and we received multiple updates about these hoax threats today. If I had to guess, it might be related to the recent school shooting in Tennessee - someone’s dumb idea to try and at least invoke a reaction from the thoughts and prayers crowd.

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__WASD__ t1_je6g6ju wrote

Middle Schooler here We were in lockdown most of the day even though we were not one of the 4 schools we didn’t even know why until my friend checked the news we were quite nervous but I just hope the catch the piece of crap that did this

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steelforgedstudios t1_je6k0h9 wrote

Replying to CARLEtheCamry (#2,457,300)

Well it worked. Not because of gun control, they're coming after the minorities now. I got attacked verbally and blamed out of nowhere by someone and told I'm evil for doing this to the Christians "as a transgender" and that "what gives you transgenders the right to think you can kill little Christian kids".

If the person who accosted me had a weapon, who knows what could have happened they were literally that deranged and worked up into a lather. I look on my phone 15 minutes afterwards while in tears from the encounter to see it's all a hoax.

I was just existing, standing out waiting for my ride on the sidewalk in the East End as this insanity went down.

I have a nephew the ages of these kids, wish harm to no one, and am actually Catholic. Today I was told I'm responsible for these things because of some lunatic in Tennessee and something I was born as.

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asr t1_je6ob4b wrote

Replying to ItsTheSoupNazi (#2,459,011)

That's the same thing - those are essentially more specific subsets of political goals.

My point is mainly it has to have some goal, just causing trouble is not terrorism.

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Infamous-Drawing521 t1_je6s0vj wrote

Replying to ComtessedeSevigny (#2,458,206)

Appreciate the kind words. Definitely a little shaken up. I feel the worst for the teachers. They looked like ghosts and shouldn’t have to be in charge of things like that. Rumor has it some were pinned to lockers and held at gunpoint since they weren’t in a classroom and had to be treated as suspect

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gucci_gucci_gu t1_je6s1u9 wrote

Now military grade police will be present at all schools 10x more than before. The US is a police state.

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DonBonj t1_je6y0k6 wrote

It was a mass spread robo call to a bunch of schools in PA. Doesn’t seem to have been any more serious than trying to incite panic.

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Be_Finale_of_Seem t1_je74q0o wrote

Does anyone know if mental health support services will be offered on site to the central students and teachers tomorrow or soon after today?

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moonwish22 t1_je76mz4 wrote

Replying to jdtomchick (#2,452,556)

Yes, it was multiple school districts across the state. All the schools near me were on lock down. Including the one my 5 year old attends. It was a widespread hoax. The message to police was an automated message sent out around 9 AM for all the schools effected. It’s being investigated by FBI now.

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kskir t1_je7qac5 wrote

Replying to ControllerPlayer06 (#2,466,172)

We need you and all of your peers to save us. As soon as you can, vote, talk to your friends, get them to vote. I am putting all of my eggs in the basket of the youth. Only you know what living in this country right now really feels like as it pertains to this type of gum violence.

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steelforgedstudios t1_je8f52a wrote

Replying to Expert-Diamond6467 (#2,472,454)

Oh dude, no not almost like at all. You weren't born a law-abiding gun owner you choose to own a gun, you can put your gun away at any time and no one knows you're a gun owner, no one's oppressing you due to your gun ownership, you could lose gun ownership and still be the person that you are. No one's threatening to exterminate you for being a gun owner.

Please get some perspective.

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linktm t1_je8g8ze wrote

Replying to SendAstronomy (#2,460,494)

Oh God, don't remind me. I was completely desensitized to those Pitt Alerts at all hours of the day across every building on campus after like the 10th one. Even when they were evacuating offices a lot of coworkers were like "Fuck this, it's cold outside, I'm staying inside." and took their chances.

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linktm t1_je8h8qu wrote

Replying to steelforgedstudios (#2,458,447)

It's total fucking bullshit that the scapegoat wheel of misfortune has landed on the trans community, the majority of shooters are cis white dudes with a hate agenda. Pitt's bringing in all these hateful guest speakers too which only amplifies the issue and hate speech on campus. I'm so sorry you had to deal with this. You deserve better.

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gruhfuss t1_je9leps wrote

Replying to dehehn (#2,455,496)

>have some lolz

Could be, probably. But something like this can also reduce subsequent response times or spread unneeded responses out to false alarms and provide inadequate support at an actual event.

It’s becoming so easy to spoof things like this, it seems foolish to think a particularly meticulous shooter wouldn’t consider it leading up to planned attacks.

I know it sounds like more suburban dad fear mongering, but really it goes to show that the focus of improving “crisis event responses” is insufficient as opposed to solutions to root causes. And I mean actual root causes beyond just “common sense” gun control too - mental health coverage, improving home life through universal SE supports, and diversion programs to give more kids a spark to pursue.

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gruhfuss t1_je9lrby wrote

Do Central and Oakland actually run active shooter drills in school now?

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mrsrtz t1_jeahp7j wrote

It appears that Albany NY and a community college in North Carolina are today's recipients of the swatting. So far.

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billy_zane27 t1_jego5gl wrote

Replying to tesla3by3 (#2,456,694)

These aren't tweets, these are hundreds if not thousands of phone calls to schools and hospitals around the country. This is not the work of one or two trolls, this is state sponsored information warfare

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jegvdl5 wrote

Replying to greatsirius (#2,466,568)

Honestly it is most likely international based. Sowing anguish and anger is a Russian speciality. China was just caught meddling in many Canadian elections, including Mayoral race of Vancouver. If they're willing to interfere with a mayoral race they certainly can send off fake shooting bot phone calls.

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