By Michael Walsh | New York Daily News

Cops were not amused by her school shooting ruse.

Angela Timmons, 54, an employee at Virginia College in South Carolina, was arrested after allegedly texting to her daughter April Timmons, 34, that a shooter was on the loose — as an April Fools’ Day prank.

April, who was in New York, called 911 and police rushed to the scene prepared for the worst.

“I’m thinking Columbine High School, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech,” Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright told local station WSMV.

But police soon found that nothing was wrong at Virginia College. And Timmons soon admitted to her daughter that it was just a hoax.

“Oh my goodness,” April told the 911 dispatcher. “She’s saying she’s playing an April Fools’ joke. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry, sir.”

Timmons said that she and her daughters typically try to trick each other on April Fools’ Day but now sees that this one was inappropriate, especially considering recent mass shootings.

Investigators found no evidence that Timmons had “done such jokes on April Fools in the past,” according to an incident report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

Wright was grateful that there was not actually a shooter on campus but was highly disappointed in Timmons’ sense of humor.

“Text someone and tell them their tire’s flat, that’s funny,” he told the NBC affiliate. “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 was charged with one count of aggravated breach of peace, one count of disturbing a school and two counts of unlawful use of a telephone.

mwalsh@nydailynews.com

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