Significant WilCo Cops' Response Termed 'False Report'

ROUND ROCK, TX — A significant police presence in a Round Rock neighborhood on Monday afternoon that prompted officials to inform residents in avoiding the area turned out to be a "false report."

Williamson County Sheriff's Office deputies were at the 1100 block of Hidden View Place in Round Rock. Details on why the police had descended to the area are unclear. "Please avoid the area," the sheriff's office wrote on Twitter just after 5 p.m. "More information to follow."

Soon after that post, the sheriff's office termed the incident as a "false report." Later, the WilCo sheriff's office categorized the incident as a "swatting" case, the nomenclature referring to when a 911 call is placed solely as a way of deceiving an emergency service into sending a response team to a person's address.

"The WCSO received a 911 call in the Terevista [sic] community off Hidden View that a subject had caused serious harm of an individual at this location," the sheriff's office wrote on Twitter. "Deputies had determined all clear. Also known as SWATTING. No known threat to the public."

The Teravista community where the incident took place is located in the rolling hills between Georgetown and Round Rock.