Armed police stormed a high school in North Carolina after noises made by a malfunctioning heater were mistaken for an active shooter.. Pender County Sheriff’s Office told The Independent they had sent officers to investigate “reports of an active shooter” at Topsail High School in the town of Hampstead early on Friday morning. “There’s no active shooter,” Tom Collins, the Pender County emergency management director, told local newspaper Star-News.
