False alarm

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By Dominic Chiappone asst. news editor

Following Sunday night’s false report of an on-campus shooting, Syracuse University joined a series of schools across New York state impacted by a recent uptick in cases of “swatting.”

The term refers to incidents when a person contacts law enforcement and falsely reports an emergency with intent to elicit a law enforcement response, according to the FBI’s definition. In a statement last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that more than 50 school districts in regions across the state, including central New York, the north country and Long Island, experienced attempted swattings on April 4 alone.

On Sunday, Twitter account CNY911 wrote that at 10:47 p.m., the state