Serial Swatter Who Caused Death Gets Five Years in Prison
Summary: Shane Sonderman, 18, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiring to swat and harass people to coerce them into giving up valuable Twitter and Instagram usernames. Mark Herring, 60, died of a heart attack in 2020 after police surrounded his Bethpage, Tennessee home in response to a swatting attack that followed weeks of demands that he surrender his @Tennessee handle.
What you should know: A man died because a group wanted his Twitter handle, and the judge called the conduct 'a whole different level of insidious criminal behavior' while noting the five-year maximum was all the law allowed. Sonderman went back to the same harassment within days of his release on bond, logging into an account the group used to target handles.
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