Gordon Ramsay’s L.A. home targeted in ‘swatting’ call

Gordon Ramsay was swatted Tuesday night but wasn t home when first responders swarmed his Los Angeles residence after the fake alert according to a Wednesday document Cops responded to calls about a shooting at Ramsay s Bel Air home around p m Tuesday TMZ informed However they arrived to find a nonexistent scene Though the caller communicated a gunman opening fire on Ramsay s mansion nothing was disturbed inside or outside the house according to TMZ Neighbors endorsed that nothing was amiss Ramsay is the latest high profile victim of a swatting occurrence in which someone calls in a fake crime at a specific location in order to trigger a massive law enforcement response While no one was home in Ramsay s event a couple swatting incidents have been deadly since the practice became popular in the mid- s Responding police officers fatally shot an innocent Kansas man in and a Tennessee man died of a heart attack when cops surrounded his home in The practice is particularly common at celebrity residences in Southern California Nicki Minaj s home was swatted two weeks ago Jennifer Aniston was targeted in September and Arnold Schwarzenegger was swatted on Thanksgiving Streaming star Kai Cenat was swatted so frequently in November that he worked out a deal with local police to call him first in occurrence something is published at his residence