ADAMS — Police are now investigating a hoax 911 "swatting" call after being summoned to a Summer Street home early Friday morning on false pretenses.

Adams Police Sgt. Matthew Wright told The Eagle that police arrived at home in the residential section of Summer Street around 4:20 a.m. after receiving “serious allegations of homicide” with a firearm inside a house. Because of the serious nature of the call, police called the Berkshire County Special Response Team shortly after arriving on the scene.

Wright said that police were able to quickly determine it was a swatting: the act of making a hoax 911 call and reporting a serious crime, usually with malicious intent of tricking law enforcement into deploying SWAT teams to an unsuspecting house. Police had cleared the scene by 6 a.m.

No charges have been filed so far and Wright said there is still an ongoing investigation to determine where the call came from.

Adams Police Chief Timothy Sorrell could not be reached Friday morning and Wright said he was not authorized to identify the exact address of the call.