Twitter handle swatter jailed after victim dies following home raid
1 min readImage: A screen shot of the “@Tennessee” Twitter account. Article by Charlie Osborne for Zero Day. ZDNet –
The 60-year-old victim’s daughter believes he was “scared to death.”
A man has been jailed for his role in a swatting incident leading to the death of a 60-year-old man.
The victim, Mark Herring, was a resident of Tennessee and owned the Twitter account @Tennessee, which happened to be a sought-after name.
As reported by the Washington Post, the coveted handle was the object of Shane Sonderman, who was just under 18 years old at the time. […]