False 911 Call Sends 12-Plus Officers to 81-Year-Old Minecraft Streamer’s Home

9 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 22

More than a dozen Queen Creek police officers in tactical gear stormed Sue Jacquot’s Arizona home Monday after a false report said the 81-year-old had been shot dead during her Minecraft fundraiser stream.
The caller allegedly told authorities that Jacquot’s 17-year-old grandson Jack Self had killed her and was about to kill himself, turning a cancer-fundraising broadcast into a swatting incident now under investigation.
Jacquot, known online as “GrammaCrackers,” built a large YouTube following playing Minecraft with family and directing ad revenue toward Jack’s treatment for a rare sarcoma, with subscriptions and GoFundMe donations adding support.
Despite the scare, Jacquot said she will keep gaming, underscoring how swatting in the US continues to target high-profile online creators with armed police responses triggered by hoax emergency calls.

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