COVINGTON, La. (WGNO) – Two 14-year-olds are accused of prank calling the Covington Police Department several times while on their way to school.
According to a release, police received a series of 911 calls from an unidentified caller Monday. During the first call the caller said he was shot, then hung up.
He was calling from a cell phone and 911 dispatchers were able to track his location to 28th Avenue, within the Covington’s city limits.
During that time dispatchers received several other calls where the caller yelled obscenities at them.
On the last call the caller told dispatchers that he was at William Pitcher Junior High and a black man was “shooting up the school”. Police say the teen caller then requested some fried chicken and Kool-Aid.
After determining the calls were fake officers began tracking the cell phone which led them to a student at the school.
Police say both teens are charged with terrorizing, misuse of 911 and telephone harassment.
They were booked into the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center in Covington.
