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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]
The FBI describes “swatting” as a prank designed to draw an emergency law enforcement response to a hoax victim, often creating a situation where a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team ...
The third call occurred in July 2023 and was made to a local police department dispatch number in Texas, in which he falsely identified himself as a senior federal law enforcement officer ...
Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic that involves false reporting in order to generate a police response to another person's address. Information in the hoaxes is often obtained through data broker websites, compromised accounts, and leaked databases to obtain, often through legal means, personally identifying information about the individual which can be used for swatting.
On December 28, 2017, a fatal swatting incident occurred in Wichita, Kansas, United States. During an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted. Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was occupied by an ...
A new bill, the Preserving Safe Communities by Ending Swatting Act of 2024, would impose strict penalties for these fake emergencies. 'Swatting' calls pose increased threat to lawmakers, federal ...
During the first swatting call on April 9, 2024, Brookfield Elementary was evacuated and police officers performed a sweep of the building. Other Brookfield police officers investigating that day ...
At the time of the incident, Shane Sonderman was a 20-year-old resident of Lauderdale County, Tennessee.Sonderman had been a part of a group of people on the instant messaging platform Discord that was responsible for carrying out multiple other swatting and extortion attacks on people with usernames on platforms considered valuable.