Swatted
© YouTubeJordan Mathewson puts his headphones down and raises his hands as a SWAT team enters his home.
A Colorado gaming enthusiast was interrupted by a SWAT team pointing rifles at him while he competed with his friends online.

The raid happened on August 27th, 2014, as Jordan Mathewson was in the middle of an online game, while live-streaming a video of his gameplay with his face overlayed. Mr. Mathewson has a large following and is known online as "Kootra." He is a founder of a gaming group known as "The Creatures."

In the middle of his game, he noticed something was amiss in the office building he was in. He observed that there were men with guns drawn, coming his way.

"Uh oh. This isn't good. They're clearing rooms," he said in his video. "What in the world? I think we're getting swatted."

Mr. Mathewson removed his headphones as officers burst in with rifles aimed at him, ordering him to raise his hands. In the seconds that followed, he was ordered to the ground and searched.

"What about this is funny to you?" an officer barked.

"What? I'm not doing anything that is funny," Mathewson responded.

Mathewson was eventually stood up and searched again before being seated in a chair. Later, video shows him restrained in the chair being interrogated.

The video showed that an officer took away Mathewson's phone and began to browse through it without a warrant.

Luckily, the chaos didn't result in Mathewson getting shot. He was released a short time later when it was determined that police had been duped by a hoax caller. Someone had reported a false, but serious incident and framed Mr. Mathewson as the target - a phenomenon known as "swatting."

"Swatting" is a costly and extremely dangerous problem, and has happened multiple times in Colorado.

The Littleton Police Department said in a statement later that afternoon that an uncorroborated caller "claimed to have shot two co-workers, held others hostage, and threatened to shoot them. He stated that if the officers entered he would shoot them as well."

Police responded in full force. No one has been arrested but police say that they will prosecute hoax callers to "the fullest extent of the law."

The events were documented among "The Creatures" on a Reddit discussion forum.

Video of the incident is posted below: