Police: Call of Shots Fired at Northwestern Graduate Dorm Was ‘Swatting’ Hoax

A call of shots fired that sent scores of heavily armed officers to a Northwestern University (IL) 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.