---
title: "Police: Call of Shots Fired at Northwestern Graduate Dorm Was ‘Swatting’ Hoax"
metaTitle: "Northwestern Swatting Hoax"
slug: northwestern-swatting-hoax
date: "2018-03-15T16:12:56-05:00"
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  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/undefined.webp"
sourcePublisher:
  name: Chicago Tribune
  url: trib.in
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://trib.in/2Ds3mU7"
legacySlug: police-call-of-shots-fired-at-northwestern-graduate-dorm-was-swatting-hoax
tags: [Swatting]
status: published
---

March 15, 2018

A call of shots fired that sent scores of heavily armed officers to a Northwestern University graduate dorm Wednesday afternoon was apparently a case of “swatting,” a false emergency designed to draw a large police response.

A caller reached the Evanston police from somewhere near Rockford around 2:15 p.m. and said he had shot his girlfriend at Engelhart Hall, just west of the main campus at Emerson Street and Maple Avenue...