Gamer SWAT pranks.
It's horrifying that some subculture of gamers finds it funny to "SWAT" people with false reports, and now a man is dead because of it. Everybody involved should go to prison for a long, long time.
But it's even more horrifying that every small-town police force in the country has a so-called "SWAT team" of untrained trigger-happy adrenaline-junkies, whose response to crank-calls is to show up and immediately kill somebody. Or if they manage to not kill a person, maybe they'll just shoot a family's dog for their amusement. And the results are hardly much better when they're executing real search warrants, rubber-stamped by some worthless judge based on an "anonymous tip" and maybe, if they're lucky, executed at the right address.
SWAT teams were originally a big-city rarity intended for hostage situations and bank robbers and the like, and it's sensible to have them for that purpose. That they have become routine and commonly used for petty non-violent crimes and executing search warrants, is a travesty with a body count, regardless of their gullibility for murder-pranks.
Sorry for the word in advance but people who swat streamers are assholes there are not two ways about, they are kids that have nothing else to do than to waste taxpayer money and its illegal. Thanks for posting I agree with what you said about they should be in jail a long time.
I've heard about streamers being SWATED a few times, but really now why would a streamer even release his address on the internet, you never know who watches your stream and what he is capable of.
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Holy crap, I didn't know it has gone so far! You've got my meaningless upvote and follow. On the subject, we should teach people worldwide how damaging shit like this can be to the person. It's awful that somebody calls fake crimes on others. As you can see - more popularity means more danger.