Crime & Safety
'Swatting' Report Investigated By Pacifica Police
Police received a false report of multiple murder by a person who claimed to have an assault rifle and was threatening children.
PACIFICA, CA — A Pacifica home was the target of a false report of multiple murder by a person who claimed to have an assault rifle and was threatening children, police said Friday.
Officers responded about 11:24 p.m. Thursday to a report of a person saying he'd just killed his parents and was threatening children inside a home in the 500 block of Beaumont Boulevard, police said.
Pacifica officers entered the home and found no evidence that residents and children there had been harmed.
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Police said the report was a "swatting" incident, in which a false report of an emergency is used to provoke a SWAT team response.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Pacifica police detectives at (650) 738-7314. Information may be provided anonymously by calling the Silent Witness tip line at (650) 359-4444.
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