The home of David Hogg has been swatted. David Hogg is a parkland shooting survivor and gun law activist.

This is a breaking story so at the time of shooting I have only limited information about what

happened and by the time you're watching this things may have changed but what we know so far is

that the SWAT team in the area went to his home because someone called and said that a man with

an AR-15 broken and was holding the family hostage. So today I'm going to give you the breaking

story, go through all the details and then give you some context on other updates about swatting

and a story from a few months ago where an innocent man was killed in a swatting incident.

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work. At 9.48am today Eric Yatsi a local journalist said hoax swat call to the home of stoman

Douglas survivor and gun law activist David Hogg. Jay Weinsier reports BSO called saying someone had

taken people hostage. This was a swatting call and is not true. There is a major law enforcement

presence at the parkland home. For those that are not familiar swatting is the practice of

using a fake phone number to call a local police department and claim a crime is being committed

that requires a swatting. The people in the home are usually caught unexpected by a large police

presence storming in with guns drawn and in some instances people have died. From heavy.com family

of stoman Douglas student David Hogg swatted due to a prank call. The family of marjorie stoman

Douglas high school student David Hogg was swatted Tuesday morning causing police to respond

to their parkland home according to local ten. The call was reportedly a prank but claimed

hogg was in a hostage situation sending coral springs fire rescue to his home. Hogg was not at

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