A 10-year-old called police from a school phone around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, saying “someone was trying to kill them.”
Police dispatchers called Arlington Heights Elementary School to check in, but no one answered the main office’s phone.
Bloomington Police Department Capt. Steve Kellams said the department responded in full force to the call.
He said when BPD gets a call like that, every available officer responds.
Seven officers responded to the incident. No one was trying to kill anyone at the school.
The boy who called 911 told police he got mad at his teacher and tried to call the police using their cell phone but wasn’t able to, so he used the school phone.
He called 911 once to report someone trying to kill “them,” according to dispatchers, and then called back a second time and hung up abruptly.
The boy went home with his grandmother after talking to police. Officers referred him to juvenile probation.
