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Refusing to give up his coveted Twitter handle, he was swatted and died of a heart attack

Timothy Bella11:04, Jul 25 2021 The international scheme to obtain a coveted Twitter handle ended on a sleepy, country road in Tennessee when police surrounded the home of Mark Herring and ordered him to come out with his hands up. Authorities were called to the Sumner County address in April 2020 in response to a report that a woman had been fatally shot and pipe bombs would go off if officers arrived, according to court records. In the hours before, Herring, 60, and his family had been harassed by several people aiming to acquire and then resell lucrative social media handles through a range of intimidation - from phone calls and text messages to false reports of fires and unexpected, cash-only pizza deliveries at their homes.

Swatting death over @Tennessee Twitter nickname brings 60 months in prison

View Comments A Memphis federal judge sentenced a man to five years in prison Wednesday in an international swatting scheme over the use of the Twitter nickname @Tennessee. Federal prosecutors said the scheme led to a person s death. Swatting is the illegal practice of falsely reporting life-threatening emergencies at people s homes, causing heavily armed police to rush to the scene. This case involves Shane Sonderman, now 20, a resident of Lauderdale County northeast of Memphis. Federal authorities accused him of working with others, including a minor in Great Britain, to use swatting as a harassment tactic to force people to give up control of a valuable asset: cool-sounding social media screen names. 

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