Mr Herring then suffered a heart attack, and died in hospital shortly thereafter. His wife says he was "scared to death."
Months later the family learned about Shane Sonderman, the minor who had been targeting Mr Herring and was responsible for the attack.
"He was from Tennessee," says Corinna Fitch. "He's the one that collected all our information, my address, my sister's, my moms, my mother sister, and put it on a channel on Discord, which is a gaming chat forum."
This was apparently an intimidation tactic to pressure Mr Herring into giving up the Tennessee username. Then, "a kid in the United Kingdom made the call to my dad's local police department."
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Sonderman and his conspiratorial should be put up against a wall
Months later the family learned about Shane Sonderman, the minor who had been targeting Mr Herring and was responsible for the attack.
"He was from Tennessee," says Corinna Fitch. "He's the one that collected all our information, my address, my sister's, my moms, my mother sister, and put it on a channel on Discord, which is a gaming chat forum."
This was apparently an intimidation tactic to pressure Mr Herring into giving up the Tennessee username. Then, "a kid in the United Kingdom made the call to my dad's local police department."
A 60-year-old man died of a heart attack after being swatted over his Twitter handle
Details of the incident, which took place in 2020, were made public in a new report.
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Sonderman and his conspiratorial should be put up against a wall
