Police, for a second time in 26 hours, rushed to the Georgia home of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday for another false shooting report, authorities said.
A person, calling him or herself “Wayne Greene,” reached out electronically to a suicide crisis center to report gunfire at 2:53 a.m., police in Rome, Georgia, said.
“The person who made the call through the chat advised that they ‘came out as trans-gender and claimed they shot the family,'” according to a Rome police report. “They also claimed, ‘If anyone tried to stop me from shooting myself, I will shoot them.’ They advised ‘they would be waiting for us.’ “
A responding officer spoke to Greene at her door and “alerted her with the reason why we were there,” police said.
This was the second time Greene was targeted with a fake call in as many days.
A 911 call placed at 1:03 a.m. on Wednesday prompted officers in Rome, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, to respond to Greene’s home because of “a subject being shot multiple times,” police said.
Making a false report of a crime in progress just to draw police to the scene is known as “swatting.”
Even though Thursday’s swatting incident came via an electronic chat, rather than a telephone call, police said they had no choice but to act immediately.
“We do take these calls seriously,” Assistant Chief Debbie Burnett said in a statement to NBC News. “It is a shame people don’t understand the gravity of this type of action.”
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