Rapper Nicki Minaj appears to have become a target of a swatting after someone falsely reported a shooting at her home in Hidden Hills, California, on Wednesday evening.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received a report of an assault with a deadly weapon in the Grammy winner’s gated community at 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday, a department spokesperson told Los Angeles Times.
The spokesperson added that an emergency call was made to authorities claiming a friend shot a black female adult, and warned that two potential suspects, clad in all-black, were still at the residence.
After responding to the scene and finding no evidence of a crime, deputies eventually determined that the call was a swatting incident.
The term “swatting” refers to an anonymous attacker targets someone
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