{"id":40808,"date":"2025-09-11T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/usc-active-shooter-hoax-traced-to-online-crime-group-purgatory-ag-issues-warning\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:15:06","slug":"usc-active-shooter-hoax-traced-to-online-crime-group-purgatory-ag-issues-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/usc-active-shooter-hoax-traced-to-online-crime-group-purgatory-ag-issues-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Active Shooter Hoax Traced to Online Crime Group &#8216;Purgatory&#8217; | AG Issues Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvpaDoF3o6I?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A terrifying false alarm at the University of South Carolina is now linked to an online group known as Purgatory, which state officials say is actively recruiting teens to carry out chaos-inducing hoaxes.<\/p>\n<p>On August 24th, a 911 call falsely reported an active shooter near the Thomas Cooper Library at USC, triggering a campus-wide lockdown. Students ran for cover and barricaded themselves in buildings \u2014 but no threat was ever found.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says the group behind the call is tied to a larger network called &#8220;764&#8221; and warns that these organizations prey on vulnerable, marginalized teens online. The goal of these groups appears to be pure disruption and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials say tech-savvy investigators are working to trace the group through digital footprints. USC and the AG&#8217;s office stress that the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrifying false alarm at the University of South Carolina is now linked to an online group known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}