On March 29, there were 13 active shooter hoax calls made to schools in Utah, which caused terror and confusion for families and students across the state.
Utah is not the only state that received similar active shooter calls over the last few days. According to KSL TV 5, the Department of Public Safety reports that hoax calls were made to schools in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
It is reported that all the threats in Utah came from the same unknown source.
The Review had a chance to interview individuals who were involved with some of the schools that were impacted. Katie Durphey, a student at Springville High School where a lockout protocol was enforced, told The Review that it wasn’t long after the lockout that people from other schools began texting her classmates that there was a shooting at Spanish Fork High School.
“I had just played against them in the state tournament for basketball and I was thinking about how those girls had just experienced such a good part of their life,” Durphey stated, at the time it wasn’t known that the calls were a hoax. “Now [a school shooting] would happen to them.”
Ashley Bergman, a parent of a student at Maple Mountain High School, told The Review what it was like for her on March 29, saying, “Presley, my daughter, texted me in a panic that they were in lockdown and my heart dropped. I panicked and in that moment I couldn’t breathe.” active shooter basketball shirt
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