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Odd Coincidence: Bogus Park Ridge Active Shooter Call, Bank Robbery Unrelated, Authorities Say Odd Coincidence: Bogus Park Ridge Active Shooter Call, Bank Robbery Unrelated, Authorities Say
Odd Coincidence: Bogus Park Ridge Active Shooter Call, Bank Robbery Unrelated, Authorities Say UPDATE (MAY 8, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bra…

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by Jerry DeMarco