Computer-generated ‘swatting’ hoaxes at Pittsburgh schools send chills through communities left reeling from school shootings
Phone trees activated. Social media conversations initiated. Text alerts distributed. Police mobilized. Fear ricocheting from students to parents and then to neighbours. Two universities locked down. Active-shooting protocols imposed. SWAT teams assembled.That was the scene in Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning when word went forth that there was a shooting incident at Central Catholic, the city’s most prestigious boys’ high school, and at Oakland Catholic, its sister school a few steps away.
“Whatever it was, this robocall, however it got out, it continues to tell us the days and times that we live in,” Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey told reporters shortly after the episodes. Faculty, administrators, staff members and students also were subject to a lockdown at Carnegie Mellon University, which is a few steps from Central Catholic, with similar restrictions at the Pittsburgh Public Schools administration building and Pittsburgh’s Science and Technology Academy. Public buses were rerouted around the area. Students at Oakland Catholic were escorted to nearby Saint Paul Cathedral.
Mass shootings anywhere, with any targets, are deplorable, but they provide a special horror when children are involved, in part because they are especially vulnerable in school settings and also because, as John F. Kennedy told the United States Committee for UNICEF four months before he was the victim of a fatal 1963 gunshot attack himself, “children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
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