GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was a victim of a swatting attack last month after a man claimed to have shot his girlfriend at Haley’s South Carolina home, it was revealed on Sunday.
Swatting is when someone makes a fake report prompting a police presence. Several politicians have recently fell victim to swatting attacks like Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Grenne. Swatting could result in injury or death as police are arriving to a home believing there to be danger present.
In late December, police responded to Haley’s home in Kiawah Island, a gated community, after receiving a 911 call from a man who “claimed to have shot his girlfriend and threatened to harm himself while at the residence of Nikki Haley,” Craig Harris, Kiawah Island director of public safety, told town officials, according to an email obtained by Reuters.
“It was determined to be a hoax … Nikki Haley is not on the island and her son is with her,” Harris said on December 30, the same day of the fake report.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated when more information becomes available.
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