Here's the 9-1-1 Call That Led Miami Beach Police to 'Swat' Lil Wayne's House

On Wednesday at about 12:23 PM, police in Miami Beach, Florida, received a tip that four people had been shot at Lil Wayne's $9.4 million waterfront property on La Gorce Island. Chillingly, the caller claimed to be the killer himself. "I don't give a fuck if you're a cop or not," the caller told the female operator in a monotone voice. "I'm shooting to kill everyone and everything, you fucking bitch."

Then what sounded like a different man called back and said he needed the cops to come to Lil Wayne's address. "I just shot like four people," he said casually. "I might shoot whoever I see. I don't know. I don't know what's wrong."

Although the guy sounded more like he was ordering a pizza than confessing to a mass murder, police are forced to take threats like these seriously. Although the 32-year-old rapper wasn't home at the time, a SWAT team swept all ten rooms of the property. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the tone of the 9-1-1 call, they deemed the whole thing a very unfunny prank.

As it turned out, Weezy was the latest high-profile victim of "swatting." It's a practice that's been around at least since 2007, according to the FBI, and involves getting a fake response out of law enforcement for the hell of it. So far, celebrities like Russell Brand, Ashton Kutcher, and Justin Bieber have been targets. The tactic is popular among the denizens of 4Chan and various other online subcultures, although it's now mainstream enough that the detectives in Law and Order: SVU threw around the term in the show's infamously terrible take on GamerGate.

Although swatting can have serious consequences, like 18 months in federal prison for one Pennsylvania hacker, or 30 months for a California gamer, it's unclear what punishment this particular perp will face if apprehended. A spokeswoman for the Miami Beach Police Department confirmed that at the time of this posting, no one has been arrested.

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