Former Gubernatorial Candidate and Critic of Georgia Guidestones Swatted

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor recalls a horrifying night when her home in Baxley was surrounded by law enforcement responding to a call claiming that she had shot her husband five times and was preparing to shoot herself.

It was late on Monday night, June 11, Taylor told The Epoch Times, when her son was awakened by red and blue lights flashing outside his window and saw a swarm of police “with rifles pointed at my house.”

Instead of the reported murder-suicide that brought them to the location, law enforcement found that the Taylor family were victims of a prank called swatting, which involves someone maliciously calling in an emergency 911 to another person’s home.

The swatter masks the call, sometimes making it appear as if it’s coming from the victim’s house while pretending to be the victim.

Most recently, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was swatted on July 8, after police received a false report claiming that there was a shooting at his residence.

The term swatting was coined in 2008 by the FBI to describe an incident when someone calls a crisis hotline as a prank to have SWAT, or police, respond.

Swatting has become deadly. In 2017, police shot and killed 28-year-old Andrew Finch in Kansas when he answered the door after officers surrounded his house responding to a call that Finch had shot and killed his father while holding his family hostage.

It is also costly. The FBI reported that the prank can cost thousands of dollars every time SWAT is activated.

The incident at her house left Taylor with the conclusion that “whoever did this was trying to get me killed.”

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) told The Epoch Times that its Georgia Cyber Crime Center is actively investigating the case.

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