No evidence for claim of shots fired near school

CHAMPAIGN – Officials did not find any evidence of shots being fired Monday near Booker T. Washington School.

Lt. Jon Swenson, supervisor for the north police district in Champaign, said police got a call from someone at the school at 12:29 p.m. Monday that someone heard a noise thought to be gunshots. The person who called police got the information from someone else who had heard a noise earlier, he said.

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