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Jenna McLaughlin

What could make a hoax call reporting a school shooting worse? Social media

Lt. Craig Stotts at the Twin Falls Police Department on April 6, 2023. (Sarah Mosquera/NPR)

It was 9:47 A.M. on Feb. 22 when the dispatch center of the Twin Falls Police Department in Idaho got the call. There were shots fired at Canyon Ridge High School, just a few miles north of the station. At least one person was injured in a classroom, and the shooter was still on the loose, according to the man on the other end of the line.

"Officers were there onsite immediately," Lt. Craig Stotts told NPR. "And our goal is to, first of all, stop the killing and then stop the dying. And we go in and take care of the threat."

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