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

Multiple police departments are responding to the incident, with USC Police Department and other law enforcement agencies on the scene.