An active shooter scare at South Carolina’s flagship university over the weekend was a swatting hoax, University of South Carolina police said. The USC Police Department received two calls around 6:30 p.

ABC Columbia spoke with multiple students as well as USC’s Deputy Chief of Police Scott Prill after USC issued an “all clear” alert following Sunday’s active shooter alert. At 6:30 Sunday evening, university officials sent out a campus-wide Carolina Alert stating there was an active shooter at the Thomas Cooper Library on the Columbia campus