GTA 5 actor for Michael De Santa seemingly swatted while trying to play GTA Online
Ned Luke thankfully appears fine

The actor behind GTA 5 protagonist Michael De Santa has reportedly been swatted while trying to stream 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 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 houseಞ.
Thankf♓ully, thoug💃h, 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.
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Following the incident, several fans watching th🧜e𝕴 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 eff𒉰ort 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 even in the past.
Celebrities are some high-profile examples of swatting over the years, t𝓀hough the present nature of streaming makes it for streamers on Twitch and beyond. Stories of that ilk haven't been far from headlines following an incident in 2017 over a Call of Duty match that sadly led to the death of a 28-year-old man.
Since then, more states have made the prank a , though ꧑laws 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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