Swatting incident ties up resources and shakes up neighborhood in Warwick

WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — Residents of a Warwick Neck neighborhood were told to shelter in place Saturday as officers responded to calls of an active shooter in a house on Cliff Road.

In the end, it was determined to have been a swatting call… a hoax triggering an emergency response when there is no actual threat. It’s the second in Rhode Island in the past two days.

Toady’s hit a neighborhood with children at nearly every house – neighbors saying that for more than an hour armed officers invaded backyards and barricaded the road in search of a potential threat…

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