Gamer made hoax call that led to man being shot in the face in ‘swatting’ prank

A British gamer made a hoax call to a terrorist hotline in the US which led to police raiding an innocent man’s home and shooting him in the face.

Robert Walker-McDaid was taking part in a ‘swatting’ craze, which sees gamers make fake calls so that SWAT teams are sent round to someone’s home.

He called a Maryland terrorism hotline pretending to be Tyran Dobbs ...