SHOOTING TURNS OUT TO BE HOAX

Twelve hours after the drama began, it turned out that the story of a woman who claimed to have shot her husband at Harrah's Rincon Casino was a hoax! At 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon authorities received a cell phone call from a woman claiming that she had shot her husband. SWAT conducted a search of the third floor of Harrah's Rincon Casino's west tower, all 55 rooms and failed to find anyone.

Here's the Sheriff's Dept report on the incident:

On January 8, 2008, at about 2:20 p.m. the Sheriff's Communications Center received a call from Security at the Harrah's
Rincon Hotel/Casino (777 Harrah's Rincon Way, Valley) of a shooting. Hotel Security reported that a female had just
called the Front Desk and said she had shot her husband in one of the rooms.
In response to the report, deputies from the Valley Center Substation, the San Marcos Station, the Sheriff's Special
Enforcement Detail (SED - the Sheriff's SWAT Team) along with officers from the California Highway Patrol (CHP)
proceeded to the scene to evacuate uninvolved persons from the Hotel and to conduct a search for the potential victim
and suspect.
Further investigation led to the possibility that the incident may have occurred on the 3rd Floor of the Garden Tower. An
extensive search was conducted by SED; however, neither a victim nor a suspect was located. No other reports of
injured persons or gunshots were made to either Hotel Security or law enforcement officials following the search.
At about 12:45 a.m. on January 9, 2008, the search was discontinued and the incident was turned over to Sheriff's
investigators to determine the actual origin and source of the call. No one is currently in custody; however, the
investigation is ongoing.