Hoax shooting calls across South Carolina upend school day

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Hoax shooting calls across South Carolina upend school dayColumbia, S.C. (AP) — A wave of hoax emergency calls about school shootings across South Carolina sent hundreds of police officers into schools on Wednesday as scared students hid behind locked classroom doors.Another wave of calls about non-existent shooters poured in throughout the day in places like Newberry, Greenville, Chester, Lancaster, Greenwood and other locations around the state, officials said.Everyone from the governor to law enforcement demanded serious punishment for causing such emotional harm and taking away a day of learning.FBI reviewing Ohio shooter's interest in violent ideologyCouples, parents, friends among the dead in shootingsPlan to boost 'red flag' gun laws gains momentum in CongressDeath penalty questionable as a deterrent to mass killing“They came to school today and it’s supposed to be a place where joy is supposed to reside.They came to school today with the intentions of bettering themselves academically and socially and emotionally and then we have to deal with something like this,” Richland 2 School District Superintendent Baron Davis said."

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