A $5,000 reward is being offered for the identity of a woman who ‘Swatted’ rapper Young Scooter before he died from a freak accident.
Young Scooter, real name Kenneth Bailey, died while running from police on Friday, March 28, in southeast Atlanta.
“You guys need to hurry and get here!” the woman told a 911 dispatcher in a Swatting phone call that led to Scooter’s untimely death.
Swatting means making a false call to police to provoke a SWAT team response to a home or business.
The woman told the 911 dispatcher that she was the “neighborhood watch”. However, the woman called 911 from a different county, and the call was transferred to the 911 center in Atlanta.
The story that the woman told the dispatcher was very detailed and unbelievable. She described a house where “pimps” ran a sex trafficking operation. She said the men had guns and were shooting. She described one man dragging a naked bleeding woman inside the house. She also said there was a child in the house.
The caller tried to make the situation sound as dangerous as possible in order to trigger a large and forceful SWAT response.
Police said the phone that the woman used was a 911-only phone. Her phone probably didn’t have a SIM card inside and could not be traced back to her.
Police responding to the 911 call knocked on the door of a single family home on a quiet cul de sac in southeast Atlanta.
“A male opened the door and immediately shut the door on the officers,” said Lt. Andrew Smith, commander of Atlanta’s homicide unit.
As police set up a perimeter outside, Scooter, 39, and another man fled out the back door of the house. The other man returned to the house, but Scooter jumped over fences and suffered a severe injury to his leg.
Somehow he severed the femoral artery (the main artery) in his leg and he bled out quickly.
“He appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg,” Lt. Smith told reporters. “Officers rendered aid and he was transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.”
A popular YouTuber identified the 911 caller as a former reality TV contestant who dated the second man in the house.
Watch the video below.
