It is very scary in the background you
can actually hear shots being fired.
Unfortunately, that call about a
shooter at Boulder High School was
not the only one similar threat.
Calls were made to more than a
dozen schools across Colorado.
All of them proved to be fake.
We have learned there have also
been hoax calls to many other West
Coast states within the last week.
We've got team coverage of the threats
and the tolls they took on the Colorado
communities today and we start
with Coal Solomon live with the
extensive surge that had to be done
after Boulder got that call today,
Steve Steger will be along looking
at back at previous incidents in the
trouble caused by the. Make calls.
Yeah, Tom. And right now we're
hearing from about some students,
about 200 of them here in Boulder
High School, who waited for two
hours or so wondering if this active
shooter scare was the real thing.
Police responded here as if it was.
They say the call came in at
around 8:33 this morning.
Officers were on scene within 3 minutes,
the department says.
The chief says that she listened
to that phone call that came in
this morning and says it was a
scary call to listen to as well.
She says that.
On it you can hear a man's voice
saying that he was outside the
school outside of Boulder High.
He said he had semi automatic weapons
and he said he was going inside.
Then on the call she said you could
actually hear the sound of gunshots as well.
And with that call coming in,
especially here in Boulder,
that prompted a huge police response
and it was a scary moment for students.
Too many of them we talked to
that were sheltered inside,
waiting to find out what happened
and texting their family at home.
Texting my
parents, just saying
like that I love them and all that. Like not
knowing really what was gonna happen.
That student and others were reunified with
their families later this and that morning.
This morning I should say at an
off campus site here in back here
out at the school in Boulder.
The classes were cancelled for the day today
after school activities canceled as well.
No sign that anything was amiss
here besides that phone call,
but this was just one of several calls
that were sent to school districts
across the state that has federal
authorities investigating right now.
My colleague Steve Sager has more on that.
Steve
Cole, we're no strangers
to the worst case scenario.
Here in Colorado and when it
comes to these situations,
law enforcement have to
respond just like that.
Schools across southern Colorado dealt
with this just six months ago and a
resource heavy response that schools
across the state felt again today.
There is a male voice and that they
said they were outside of the school
and that they had a a bomb and a AR15.
That was enough to kick every
police officer in Brighton into
gear to get to the high school this
morning. When a call like this
comes in it, it's all hands on deck,
all that police power for nothing.
We can't assume that you know
that this is just another one
of those fake calls we have.
To respond the way we do,
they have to do it.
Just like these officers did
six months ago in a similar
response in Southwest Colorado.
These officers are storming
Montrose High School. Ready.
Watch your Sheriff's Office.
After a string of suspicious calls
to emergency dispatch centers
across Colorado on September 19th,
20229, News obtained two
of them. And who am I speaking with?
I'm still on the high school building
at one just north of Montrose in Delta.
Do you know where the shooting is
coming from? In the classroom,
you know one student armed
with AK47 reading bloodshot.
Another from a similar sounding man
calling about Alamosa High School.
Came to one class in shopping students.
Bogus calls. OK, we've got we've
got people headed that way
that led to real responses.
It impacts our manning and our staffing,
our ability to do other things
probably like no, they're call does.
Now another investigation begins
after a string of similar calls,
seeing whoever did this and
how this occurred and holding
those people accountable.
That's I I think the next step
with us and and I imagine it's the
next step with all these agencies.
The FBI didn't have any information
about those cases back in September,
I should point out.
Neither Brighton PD nor Boulder
PD could tell us today whether
the caller had an accent like the
caller in those September calls,
though a law enforcement source told
me the caller who phoned in threats
to Estes Park High School this
morning did have an accent that said,
you can imagine these cases
are incredibly complex.
To try to investigate, Tom,
you've got to try to sort out a
call that came in that may not
have been recorded in some cases.
So they've got a lot of work ahead of them.
Yeah. And at the outset, you have
to presume that it's legitimate
and that sends everyone into, into,
into a bit of chaos. Steve, thank you.