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Law enforcement agencies in Genesee and Orleans Counties were affected by a swatting incident late Monday afternoon.
A call into dispatcher on non-emergency line in Monroe County reported an incident on Countyline Road of a female that had been shot and was not breathing, according to scanner transmissions, a male subject had arrived home to find his girlfriend with another man. That man had run off into the woods and the suspect was in the living room with a gun. Orleans County cleared the air for a response to Countyline Road near the Monroe County line.
Meanwhile, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department, NYS Police, the ERT team and crews from Mercy Ambulance responded to 3685 Countyline Road in Darien, off of Rt. 33, which was a field. Law enforcement searched the road and checked on three residences to make sure everyone was okay between Sumner Road and Rt. 33.
Wikipedia definition below:
Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person’s address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed, among other things
Chief Deputy Joseph Graff with the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office says the incident will be investigated. He says the person who made the call could face the charges of filing a false report and falsely reporting an incident.
The people who do this need to have the book thrown at them and spend some time in jail. Emergency responders and Law Enforcement race to try to save a life and keep everyone else safe,in the meantime someone else could use or need their help.