911 Caller Threatens To Shoot Students

Police in New Jersey have still not been able to trace the origin of a 911 call made last month by a man who said he had an AK-47 across from a school and intended to start shooting students. “I’m at Hackettstown High School and watching the kids,” the man told a dispatcher during one of two disjointed calls. The man used broken English and told the dispatcher he was at various locations during the call. Because of the various locations the caller gave, police sealed off the high school and six other city schools for four hours, along with the city library. Investigators say the call originated from a cellular phone, which has complicated tracing the caller. Also, the logging tape of the second call had “problems,” police said, affecting the production of a transcript. Officials didn’t provide a further explanation of the problem. Download (pdf) the full 911 call transcript here.