‘A very scary day’

Highlands, N.C., downtown involved in lock down for ‘swatting’ incident

By Josh Bryson and Mitch Stone

CNI News Service

Josh Bryson/The Highlander. The Highlands Police Department, Macon County Sheriff’s Department and Highlands Fire and Rescue respond to the swatting incident at the Church of the Incarnation on Dec. 11.
Josh Bryson/The Highlander. The Highlands Police Department, Macon County Sheriff’s Department and Highlands Fire and Rescue respond to the swatting incident at the Church of the Incarnation on Dec. 11.

What began as a clear, chilly, ordinary December day in Highlands, N.C. changed dramatically late in the morning.

On Thursday, Dec. 11, at 10:40 a.m., the Highlands Police Department (HPD) received a c…