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Lauren Aratani

Nikki Haley was swatted in December, records review shows

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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a campaign event in North Charleston, South Carolina, on 24 January 2024. Photograph: Randall Hill/Reuters

Newly reviewed records show that the presidential hopeful Nikki Haley was the target of a swatting incident in late December when an anonymous person called 911 claiming to have killed his girlfriend at Haley’s South Carolina home.

Authorities responded to a call on 30 December from a person who said he had shot his girlfriend and was threatening to harm himself, giving Haley’s address to the operator. It was shortly deemed a fake emergency, Reuters reported. Haley and her son were not at home during the time of the call; her husband was overseas.

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