Spartanburg (WHNS) -- Spartanburg County deputies said a woman will be charged after she sent a text message about a shooting at a local college as an April Fools' joke. 
 
 Lt. Tony Ivey with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said they received a call from the woman's daughter after receiving a text message Tuesday morning about a possible shooting at Virginia College. 
 
 According to Ivey, the message said the woman was hiding in a bathroom and heard gunshots. 
 
 He said the daughter called 911 and deputies swarmed the college. Sheriff Chuck Wright said as he was headed to the scene he was prepared to find a serious situation. 
 
 "I'm thinking Columbine High School, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech," he said. 
 
 But as deputies responded, the daughter called back after getting another message from her mom, who said it was an April Fools' joke, according to Ivey. 
 
 Wright said he was thankful it was a joke but was very disappointed at the woman's bad choice. He said no one would think it was a funny joke. 
 
 "Text someone and tell them their tire's flat, that's funny," Wright said. "We're talking about death. It's real. The people of Sandy Hook, when they see this online they're not going to think it's very funny. I don't think it's very funny." 
 
 Wright said his deputies responded to the scene very fast, prepared for anything, prepared to give their lives for someone else only to learn it was a joke. 
 
 He also said the joke was not fair to the college, saying the employee made a bad choice that does not reflect the institution. 
 
 The woman was identified by Wright on Facebook as 54-year-old Angela Timmons of Spartanburg. 
 
 Wright said Timmons has been arrested and will be charged with disturbing schools. ||||| A 911 call reporting a shooting at an Upstate college brought out law enforcement in full force Tuesday morning and now an employee is charged, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 The call shortly after 10 a.m. reported shots fired at Virginia College on Warren H. Aber nathy Boulevard in west Spartanburg. 
 
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 The Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene with multiple patrol cars and deputies, and they quickly determined that the 911 call was an April Fool's joke. 
 
 Sheriff Chuck Wright said that 15 to 20 of his deputies had responded at "breakneck speed" because they were picturing something "like another Columbine." 
 
 "There's like 20 something cops all the sudden. We were just like, 'Holy cow. What's going on?'"' said Stacy Hirsch, who was in the grocery store parking lot next door. "They were just jumping right out of the cars and running straight in. 
 
 According to an incident report, Angela Timmons sent a text message to her daughter about hearing shots fired in the school. 
 
 When the daughter's followup text didn't get a response, she called 911 to report the shooting. 
 
 "She was calling to make sure that mama is not being slaughtered, pretty much," said Wright. "If my mom called and said there's a shooter inside the school that I'm at, I'd call 911." 
 
 While on the phone with a dispatcher, Timmons' daughter got a text from her mother telling her it was all an April Fool's joke. 
 
 "I'm not very happy about this. I don't mind letting you know about it. I'm not happy at all. That is not a good April Fool's joke," Wright said. "We got deputies that drove very quickly to get over here, without regard for their own life. They go into that school expecting the worst. It just wasn't funny." 
 
 Timmons is facing four charges, disturbing school, aggravated breach of peace, and two counts of unlawful use of telephone. She was released from jail Tuesday night on a personal recognizance bond. 
 
 "It was just a simple joke between my daughters and I, something we do every April Fool's Day," Timmons told WYFF News4's Mike McCormick on Wednesday. "Obviously, if I thought anybody, any harm would come to anyone, or anything would happen where my place of work would be involved I wouldn't have done it. It was a one second prank." 
 
 A student told WYFF News4 that Timmons works in the college's financial aid office. 
 
 “We are very, very disappointed regarding the poor judgment displayed," said Diane Worthington, vice president of marketing for Virginia College. “We apologize to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, first responders, students and staff. We take student safety very seriously, and we are cooperating with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.” 
 
 Worthington would not comment on Timmons' current employment status. 
 
 "I take full responsibility, let me say that. What happened, it was a simple, if you can imagine, a simple prank. I chose in bad judgment, not thinking, I chose the wrong prank given today's times," said Timmons. "I am so apologetic and sorry to my coworkers at Virginia College who were impacted by that pressure or that stress of the moment, but I had no intentions of doing that." 
 
 Timmons said attorneys have been showing up at her home and she does have plans to hire one. 
 
 "I felt like I spent the day being treated like an intense character," said Timmons. "Not taking lightly what happened and what occurred and how they used their resources to rush out, I feel that I could've been treated differently." 
 
 When asked if she was hiring an attorney just to represent her or to take legal action for the way she was treated, Timmons said she couldn't comment. ||||| A report from the Connecticut State Attorney describes Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza as having "significant mental health issues" that affected his ability to interact with others. He had been prescribed both therapy and medication, but no health professionals saw any violence tendencies. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports. 
 
 Newtown shooter Adam Lanza had no clear motive, but was obsessed with Columbine and planned the rampage that took the lives of 20 children and six school staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary, "including the taking of his own life," according to a long-awaited report on last December's shooting released Monday. 
 
 "Many people have asked why the shooter did what he did on December 14, 2012," said the 48-page report, which was published on the state's Division of Criminal Justice website. "Or in the vernacular of the criminal justice system, 'Did he have a motive to do what he did?' This investigation, with the substantial information available, does not establish a conclusive motive." 
 
 The report also said that there was "no clear indication" why Lanza chose Sandy Hook for the shooting, other than that it was close to his home. The report said it is "unknown" what contribution his mental health issues made to his attack, though they interfered with his ability "to live a normal life," and that Lanza had a strained relationship with his mother Nancy, telling a witness he would not feel bad if something happened to her. Lanza shot and killed Nancy before he drove to the school. 
 
 The report described Lanza as obsessed with mass shootings. "He had a familiarity with and access to firearms and ammunition and an obsession with mass murders," said the report, "in particular the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. Investigators however, have not discovered any evidence that the shooter voiced or gave any indication to others that he intended to commit such a crime himself." 
 
 Investigators said Lanza had posted on an "internet blog" that "focused on mass shootings and in particular the Columbine shootings." The report's appendix noted that a computer hard drive included a computer game called "School Shooting," in which the player controls a character who enters a school and shoots students. 
 
 Lanza had also downloaded videos about Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, surveillance footage of a Cleveland school shooting, video of a mall shooting and two videos of suicide by gunshot. 
 
 He was also apparently a big fan of “Dance Dance Revolution,” a video game in which the player stands on a platform and moves his feet in sync with instructions on a video screen, the report notes. 
 
 A commercial version of the game — along with several other games, including “Call of Duty” and “Grand Theft Auto” — is located in the basement of a local theater Lanza frequented between April and December of last year, according to the report. 
 
 A home version of the game was “seen and photographed in the shooter’s home,” according to the report, adding that investigators discovered several videos of Lanza playing the game “on digital media taken from the home.” He also had “game screen shots” on his computer, the report said. 
 
 Lanza fired 154 rounds in the school, and had 147 more rounds he could have fired, according to the report. Lanza killed the students and the staffers with an assault rifle and shot himself with a Glock handgun. 
 
 Police, according to the report, arrived at the school "within minutes of the first shots being fired. They went into the school to save those inside with the knowledge that someone might be waiting to take their lives." 
 
 Read the report here. 
 
 Shannon Hicks / Newtown Bee via EPA file Police officers evacuate children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 following a school shooting there. 
 
 According to the report, Lanza refused to take suggested medication and didn't engage in recommended behavior therapy. Investigators found no medication in his system "that would affect his behavior." 
 
 Lanza's mother Nancy "took care of all the shooter's needs," said the report. "The mother indicated that she did not work because of her son’s condition. She worried about what would happen to the shooter if anything happened to her.” 
 
 His mother consistently described him as having Asperger's Syndrome, and said he was unable to make eye contact, was sensitive to light and didn't like to be touched. She said there were marked changes in his behavior around the seventh grade, when he became more withdrawn. 
 
 According to the report, however, a witness said Lanza "did not have an emotional connection" with Nancy. "A person who knew the shooter in 2011 and 2012 said the shooter described his relationship with his mother as strained," said the report, "because the shooter said her behavior was not rational." 
 
 In November 2012, just a month before the shooting, Nancy was concerned about Adam because "he hadn't gone anywhere in three months," said the report, "and would only communicate with her by email, though they were living in the same house." Nancy Lanza, however, never expressed fear for herself or anyone else at the hands of her son. 
 
 Nancy Lanza wanted to buy the shooter a new pistol for Christmas, according to the report, and "had prepared a check for that purpose to give the shooter." 
 
 The long-awaited summary of the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history omitted much information from the investigative file, including transcripts of 911 calls, some witness statements from children and most crime scene photos. The appendix to the report, however, includes photos of the bullet-riddled entrance to the school, photos of the Bushmaster and Glock guns he used in the assault, and photos of the magazines left at the scene. 
 
 The release of the report, initially expected over the summer, was pushed back several times amid growing pressure from authorities -- including Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy -- to release more information. 
 
 Throughout the investigation, State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III has resisted efforts by the news media and some public officials to release more information related to the shooting. 
 
 In March, he ordered police to stop discussing details of the investigation at conferences after the New York Daily News reported that state police Col. Danny Stebbins told audience members at a law enforcement conference in New Orleans that Lanza had created a spreadsheet of mass killings going back 30 years. 
 
 He and the town of Newtown also went to court to try and prevent the release of 911 calls from the school or transcripts of them, arguing that making them public could jeopardize the investigation. The state's Freedom of Information Commission ruled in September that the recordings should be provided to the news media, but a prosecutor obtained a stay while he appeals that order. At a hearing in New Britain, Conn. on Monday morning, a judge said he would listen to the recordings and issue a ruling on whether they can be made public. 
 
 Handout / Reuters Adam Lanza, in an undated file photo. 
 
 The summary also represents only a small portion of the investigation by both state and federal authorities. It does not include the entire state police evidence file, which runs thousands of pages, according to Paul Vance, spokesman for the Connecticut State Police. 
 
 The full report is expected to be released once Sedensky declares the investigation closed, though no date has been announced. 
 
 And some evidence from the state's investigation may never be made available to the public. 
 
 A Connecticut law passed earlier this year in response to the shooting prohibits the release of photographs, film, video and other visual images showing a homicide victim if they can "reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy of the victim or the victim's surviving family members." 
 
 Before its release, Sedensky’s office and local authorities did everything they could to brace townspeople for the coming onslaught of attention. 
 
 Slideshow: Newtown school massacre Jessica Hill / AP A nation mourns after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary, which left 20 children and six staff members dead. Launch slideshow 
 
 Sedensky allowed victims' relatives to review the report at briefings over the previous two weeks. 
 
 And the interim superintendent of schools in Newtown advised parents to think about limiting their children's exposure to media reports on Monday and to reach out to mental health professionals if family members need help coping with the contents of the report or the approaching anniversary. 
 
 "We all understand that for the children who were directly affected by this tragedy the release of the report and the upcoming anniversary can carry a very personal meaning," read the Nov. 19 letter from Dr. John Reed. 
 
 NBCConnecticut, the Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. 
 
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– Police in Spartanburg, Va., aren't laughing off a woman's April Fool's "joke" about a shooting in the college where she worked. Police say 54-year-old Angela Timmons sent her daughter a text message to say she was hiding in a bathroom at Virginia College after hearing shots fired; the daughter called 911 after failing to receive a response to a follow-up text and police raced to the scene. "There's like 20-something cops all of the sudden," a witness tells WYFF. "They were just jumping right out of the cars and running straight in." Officers quickly determined there was no threat. The local sheriff says officers responded at "breakneck speed," fearing they would arrive at the scene of another Columbine or Sandy Hook massacre. He says he was glad it turned out to be a joke—though not a funny one. "Text someone and tell them their tire's flat, that's funny," he tells WPTV. "We're talking about death. It's real. The people of Sandy Hook, when they see this online they're not going to think it's very funny. I don't think it's very funny." Timmons faces multiple charges including disturbing schools. She worked in the college's financial aid office, though it's not clear whether she still has a job.