While RiRi was on tour, her house was swarmed by cops
after someone placed an alarming call about a home invasion.
Rihanna becomes the latest victim in a series of swatting
pranks after P. Diddy, Paris Hilton and the Kardashian family were targeted in
the similar hoax emergency calls this year. On April 4, police officers came
rushing to her house in Los Angeles after they received a distressed call
giving a bogus tip about a home invasion.
The Los Angeles Police Department informed E! News that
someone called 911 Thursday shortly after 3 P.M. The caller alarmed the cops
saying that there were 2 armed men at RiRi's residence and a person in the
singer's Pacific Palisades house got shot. The officers found nothing happened
though, upon their arrivals on the scene.
RiRi was not present when the incident happened. She was
miles away hitting the road for "Diamonds World Tour" to support her
seventh studio album "Unapologetic". She just performed at KeyArena
in Seattle on April 3 and will head to San Jose for a live show at HP Pavilion
on Monday. She is expected to finish the tour in October.
Earlier this week after news broke out that Diddy was
targeted by swatting prankster(s), TMZ reported that the hackers who exposed
celebrities' personal data including their social security numbers and credit
card info confessed they were the mastermind behind the debacle.
Now having a new website with domain extension .re, they
allegedly also took credit for the other pranks targeting Hilton, Kardashian,
Tom Cruise, Chris brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They
added "swatted" next to Hilton's and Diddy's names.
FBI has launched investigation into the matter, but no
arrest has been made so far. The list of celebrities who got their personal
info including their addresses exposed continues to grow. Hilary Clinton,
Michelle Obama, Beyonce Knowles, Lady GaGa, Kim Kardashian, Anderson Cooper are
among them.
Late last year, a 12-year-old boy was arrested in
connection to the swatting prank involving the homes of Ashton Kutcher and
Justin Bieber
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