GamerGate trolls send police to wrong address in botched swatting attack

GamerGate supporters have fluffed an attempted attack on one of their targets by sending 20 police officers to the wrong house.

Members of 8chan tried to get a SWAT team dispatched to the house of Grace Lynn, who once supported GamerGate, in an act of revenge for her defection (via The Oregonian).

Police in Portland, Oregon, dispatched 20 officers (not a SWAT team) to an address following a call about an armed hostage situation. While they were drawing up a plan to tackle the problem, the Portland Central Precinct received information telling them the call was probably a hoax.

The act of attempting to get a SWAT team falsely sent to someone's house has been dubbed "swatting."

Miss Lynn, a pixel artist, song writer and game designer, tweeted about the incident from her Twitter account.

Just got confirmation from Portland police someone did indeed try to SWAT my old address.
— Grace Lynn (@pixelgoth) January 3, 2015

Got off the phone with the Police again. They said they were able to deescalate the situation thanks to me contacting them.
— Grace Lynn (@pixelgoth) January 3, 2015

They informed me when I move back to Portland to contact them and they would make sure to have my info on file in case anyone tried again.
— Grace Lynn (@pixelgoth) January 3, 2015

It was indeed http://t.co/PTu5cBIDIl who swatted me. They want to do it to my family too. https://t.co/XPn73WqIqw pic.twitter.com/md2Hozbms5
— Grace Lynn (@pixelgoth) January 3, 2015

She also tweeted about another attack.

8chan has decided I am going to be their weekly target for harassment. "We get them to kill themselves" pic.twitter.com/R5WzGxv5zz
— Grace Lynn (@pixelgoth) January 5, 2015

Referring to Miss Lynn as "it" due to her status as transgender person, their initial plan was to attempt to make both her and fellow game developer Chloe Sagal kill themselves.

Lynn supported the GamerGate movement in its earliest days when it still existed in some form as a stand for ethical video game journalism, but left after seeing it devolve completely into a twisted hate group targeting women in the industry.