{
  "id": "2026-06-02-little-big-horn-college-swatting",
  "slug": "little-big-horn-college-swatting-2026-06-02",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Little Big Horn College",
    "shortName": "LBHC",
    "state": "MT",
    "type": "tribal-college",
    "enrollment": 398
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-06-02",
    "type": "swatting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-hoax",
    "headline": "An Anonymous Caller Threatens an Active Shooter at the Crow Nation's Only Tribal College, and Six Agencies Respond to Nothing",
    "summary": "On June 2, 2026, an anonymous caller phoned law enforcement threatening an active-shooter event at [Little Big Horn College](https://www.kulr8.com/news/swatting-call-triggers-lockdown-at-little-big-horn-college-in-big-horn-county/article_013cc3ba-edc9-412b-bba1-e4ee4fcc853a.html) on the Crow Indian Reservation in Crow Agency, Montana. The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office, BIA police, Montana Highway Patrol, Tribal Fish & Game, Tribal Security, and the FBI all responded as the campus and nearby schools were secured and placed in lockdown. Roughly two hours and forty minutes later, [the lockdown was lifted](https://sheridanmedia.com/news/233597/little-big-horn-college-targeted-in-swatting-call/) after officials found no evidence of any threat, consistent with a wave of swatting calls that had recently hit other locations around Montana.",
    "outcome": "No shooter, weapon, or victim was found. Law enforcement determined the call was a swatting hoax consistent with a recent wave of similar false reports across Montana."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Midday, June 2, 2026, shortly after 12:40 PM MDT, when the anonymous threat call was received",
      "channel": "unknown",
      "verbatimText": "Little Big Horn College is currently in lockdown following a report of an active shooter on campus. Students, staff, and visitors should shelter in place and remain in secure locations. Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from KULR8, KTVQ, and Sheridan Media reporting on the Little Big Horn College lockdown",
      "annotations": [
        "The anonymous call came in at approximately 12:40 PM MDT threatening an active-shooter event, prompting a large multi-agency response including the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office, BIA police, Montana Highway Patrol, Tribal Fish & Game, Tribal Security, and the FBI",
        "Surrounding schools and offices in the Crow Agency area were also placed in lockdown alongside the college as a precaution",
        "Little Big Horn College is a public tribal land-grant community college chartered by the Crow Tribe of Indians in 1980, with a student body that is roughly 95 percent Crow Tribal members"
      ],
      "characterCount": 235
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Afternoon, June 2, 2026, at approximately 3:20 PM MDT, when the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office lifted the lockdown",
      "channel": "unknown",
      "verbatimText": "The lockdown at Little Big Horn College has been lifted. Law enforcement found no evidence of a threat to public safety. The campus is returning to normal operations.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from KULR8 and KTVQ reporting confirming the lockdown was lifted at approximately 3:20 PM",
      "annotations": [
        "The lockdown lasted approximately two hours and forty minutes, from about 12:40 PM to 3:20 PM MDT, before the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office confirmed no threat existed",
        "Investigators linked the call to a broader wave of swatting incidents that had recently targeted other locations across Montana, including shopping malls in Billings, Missoula, and Bozeman"
      ],
      "characterCount": 166
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Little Big Horn College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Horn_College) is a public tribal land-grant community college chartered in 1980 by the Crow Tribe of Indians (Apsaalooke Nation) in Crow Agency, Montana, on the Crow Indian Reservation. Its roughly 400 students are drawn overwhelmingly from the Crow Tribe, with coursework oriented toward the reservation's economic and job opportunities in education, business, Crow studies, agriculture, and technical work. On June 2, 2026, the small campus became the target of a swatting hoax: an anonymous caller phoned in a threat of an active shooter, and law enforcement descended in force. [KULR8 reported](https://www.kulr8.com/news/swatting-call-triggers-lockdown-at-little-big-horn-college-in-big-horn-county/article_013cc3ba-edc9-412b-bba1-e4ee4fcc853a.html) that the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs police, Montana Highway Patrol, Tribal Fish and Game, Tribal Security, and the FBI all responded, while the college and nearby schools and offices were placed in lockdown. [KTVQ Billings confirmed](https://www.ktvq.com/news/crime-watch/threat-prompts-heavy-law-enforcement-presence-at-little-big-horn-college) the lockdown was lifted at approximately 3:20 PM after nearly three hours, with the sheriff's office finding no evidence that public safety remained at risk. [Sheridan Media, a regional outlet across the Montana-Wyoming border](https://sheridanmedia.com/news/233597/little-big-horn-college-targeted-in-swatting-call/), noted the call fit a pattern of swatting incidents that had been recurring around the state in the preceding weeks. The episode illustrates how even a tiny, remote tribal college -- one of only 37 federally recognized Tribal Colleges and Universities nationwide -- can be swept into the same swatting phenomenon that disrupted dozens of much larger universities during 2025 and 2026.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Six separate law enforcement agencies -- the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office, BIA police, Montana Highway Patrol, Tribal Fish & Game, Tribal Security, and the FBI -- responded to a single anonymous phone call threatening an active shooter",
    "The lockdown lasted nearly three hours, from approximately 12:40 PM to 3:20 PM MDT, despite there being no actual threat",
    "The incident was one of several swatting calls that hit Montana locations in the surrounding weeks, showing that small, remote tribal colleges are not exempt from the broader swatting wave affecting American higher education"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Swatting call triggers lockdown at Little Big Horn College in Big Horn County - KULR8",
      "url": "https://www.kulr8.com/news/swatting-call-triggers-lockdown-at-little-big-horn-college-in-big-horn-county/article_013cc3ba-edc9-412b-bba1-e4ee4fcc853a.html",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Update: Lockdown lifted at Little Big Horn College - KTVQ Billings",
      "url": "https://www.ktvq.com/news/crime-watch/threat-prompts-heavy-law-enforcement-presence-at-little-big-horn-college",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Little Big Horn College Targeted In Swatting Call - Sheridan Media",
      "url": "https://sheridanmedia.com/news/233597/little-big-horn-college-targeted-in-swatting-call/",
      "type": "local-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "swatting",
    "hoax",
    "tribal-college",
    "montana",
    "crow-nation",
    "crow-agency",
    "lockdown",
    "2026"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}