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On April 27, 2020, a fatal swatting incident occurred in Sumner County, Tennessee.The incident followed an extortion attempt throughout March and April 2020 in which Shane Sonderman and a group of co-conspirators attempted to obtain the Twitter handle "@Tennessee" belonging to 60-year-old Mark Herring.
The swatting was organized in an attempt to force him to give up his Twitter handle "@tennessee". Shane Sonderman was sentenced to five years in prison for the swatting, and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. A 16-year-old in the United Kingdom was also involved, but they could not be extradited or identified due to their age as a juvenile. [51] [52]
Sorrenti said that the slurs in question were images of past harassment directed against her and that she had been banned "for openly talking about the abuse [she receives]". She moved to YouTube to stream during the ban. [14] [27] Sorrenti joined Twitter in December 2020, and amassed over 100,000 followers on the platform.
In May 2020, Mr Tomlinson’s home was swatted for the first time when two police officers turned up “ready to go” at his home late one night demanding to know where “the children” were.
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In 2019, Whitcomb formed and co-chaired the Swatting Mitigation Advisory Committee, composed of both police and community members, working alongside co-chair Naveed Jamali [16] to collect data and insights regarding swatting crimes in Seattle. In 2020, Whitcomb joined ADL Pacific Northwest in testifying before Washington State House and Senate ...
The genesis of this particular swatting was a trivial dispute over a $1.50 wager between a couple of online gamers. Finch had nothing to do with the game; his sole mistake was stepping onto his ...