Nicki Minaj Targeted in ‘Swatting’ Report, Cops Respond to Unoccupied Home

Celebrity rapper Nicki Minaj is the most recent high-profile goal of a “swatting” name this week … as regulation enforcement personnel swarmed her L.A.-area property Wednesday evening responding to a report of a taking pictures at her home.

Regulation enforcement sources inform TMZ … shortly after 7 PM yesterday, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. acquired a name reporting an assault at a residence in Hidden Hills, the place Nicki lives.

Deputies rushed to the scene … the place they discovered nobody at residence, and no points within the space.

The Los Angeles Times studies an unidentified individual known as the sheriff’s enterprise line — not 911 — to report somebody had shot a Black lady at Nicki’s tackle, and two folks had been nonetheless on the scene. The decision was later categorized as swatting.

Minaj has beforehand handled being the goal of swatting — through which a caller studies an incident in an effort to provoke a large regulation enforcement response at their goal — in August and July 2023 … L.A. County deputies had been informed somebody had been shot at her home, and within the July incident, that Nicki’s baby was being abused.

The caller in Wednesday evening’s incident has not been recognized.

This follows a tragic swatting occasion in Atlanta, through which a 911 caller told police a unadorned lady was being assaulted at a residence the place rapper Younger Scooter was current — when officers responded, he ran out the again and ended up tearing a femoral artery leaping a fence … and later died because of the harm. No criminality was discovered on the home. That caller was later recognized as a one-time actuality TV contestant, and he or she was arrested and charged with making a false report back to police.