GTA 5 actor for Michael De Santa seemingly swatted while trying to play GTA Online
Nov. 23, 2023Ned Luke thankfully appears fine
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The actor behindGTA 5protagonist Michael De Santa has reportedly been swatted while trying to streamGTA Online.
In the middle of a recent stream and subsequent clips floating around online, Ned Luke is seen looking through some GTA Online leaderboards while interacting with their chat. Things take a turn when Luke’s phone goes off, prompting him to answer. After some back and forth, the actor informs viewers that he has to cut the stream short as someone has ‘swatted’ their house.
Thankfully, though, Luke appears to be okay. As clips continue to spread online across Twitter and beyond, the actor has tweeted a simple shrugging emoji alongside a picture of an Apple avatar doing much the same.
Following the incident, several fans watching the stream and beyond have tweeted Luke directly to wish him well.
Swatting has, unfortunately, been far from a rare sight online. It’s a dangerous and illegal prank that sees a person file a serious report to a police department in an effort to get a SWAT team or other law enforcement officers deployed to a specific location – typically someone’s residence; it’s a distressing incident for participants, and has evenled to deathin the past.
Since then, more states have made the prank afelony, though laws remain hard to enforce due to how easy it is for bad actors to use software to spoof IP addresses and phone numbers.
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