{
  "id": "2025-08-28-washington-state-university-cub-swatting",
  "slug": "washington-state-university-cub-swatting-2025-08-28",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Washington State University",
    "shortName": "WSU",
    "state": "WA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "WSU Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-08-28",
    "type": "swatting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-hoax",
    "headline": "No active shooter after CUB swatting call",
    "headlinePublic": "No active shooter after CUB swatting call",
    "summary": "WSU [posted that Whitcom 911 received a swatting call reporting an active shooter at the CUB and that WSU Police confirmed there was no active shooter](https://alert.wsu.edu/2025/08/28/swatting-call-active-shooter/).",
    "outcome": "Confirmed hoax. All-clear-only live product; initial not invented. Distinct from the June 15 2026 911 outage."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-08-28T09:11:25-07:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Swatting Call – Active Shooter\n\nWhitcom – 911 – received a swatting call reporting an active shooter at the CUB. WSU Police have confirmed there is no active shooter at the CUB.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://alert.wsu.edu/2025/08/28/swatting-call-active-shooter/",
      "sourceDescription": "WSU Alert: Swatting Call Active Shooter at the CUB",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent WP REST fetch 2026-08-24. sha256 9c66ca8193a5c89953992ee0cd3c596680fee580a2210203edb4ee9a45f35757. En dashes preserved. All-clear-only live item; initial not invented. SPN 429.",
        "Distinct incident from 2026-06-15-washington-state-university-911-outage: different type and date."
      ],
      "characterCount": 177
    }
  ],
  "context": "WSU posted the notice on [alert.wsu.edu](https://alert.wsu.edu/2025/08/28/swatting-call-active-shooter/). High-wind warning March 11 2026 remains queued.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "A swatting call reported an active shooter at the CUB.",
    "WSU Police confirmed there was no active shooter."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Swatting Call – Active Shooter",
      "url": "https://alert.wsu.edu/2025/08/28/swatting-call-active-shooter/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-24",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 429"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "public-r1",
    "washington",
    "wsu",
    "swatting",
    "emergency-notification",
    "2025"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-24",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}