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While riding a school bus in September, a 12-year-old girl allegedly called 911 to report a shooting in progress in the area of the Montgomery Village Center shopping mall. But when police arrived, gunfire and the caller were nowhere to be found.
After several months of investigation, on Tuesday, Montgomery County detectives assigned to the Threat Assessment and Behavioral Solutions Unit identified the caller in the so-called swatting incident as the 12-year-old student, police said Friday in a press release. Police did not identify the girl because she is a minor.
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