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Report: Police surround Bonaire home after 'Swatting' prank alleges hostage situation

Jason and Natasha Montano said they were asleep when they woke up to officers at their home on Sage Meadows Lane

UPDATE, 11 p.m.:

One Houston County family is still shaken up after a prank police call "swatting." According to CBS News, "swatting" is when someone calls 911 accusing someone else of a fake crime. The targets are often online gamers.

Tristain Gibbons plays video games like a lot of other teens.

"I live stream at the same time while I'm playing Xbox and I just use my laptop to watch my stream chat," said Gibbons.

On Monday, his live stream turned into a nightmare. He says a random user called the police and "swatted" him.

"It made me feel targeted definitely, because at first, I was like, 'Something just isn't right. I've got people in the chat sending me things about my address,'" said Gibbons.

A Houston County Sheriff's Office incident report says dispatch got a call saying Gibbons was holding a male and female hostage inside the house with gas and explosives.

"So I went outside and as soon as I saw the police officers, my heart just dropped because I have AR-15s aimed at me, so I was like, 'I don't know what's going on,'" said Gibbons.

Gibbons says he told the police a streamer made a prank call. His mother, Natasha Montano, posted on Facebook that she woke up with 66 missed calls and the police at her bedroom door at 3:30 a.m.

"I said, 'What's going on, and how did you get in my house?' It was very scary and very traumatizing. My daughter sat up screaming," said Montano.

The family says they have some relief knowing the sheriff's office is doing an investigation.

"I make sacrifices to take care and provide for my children, and I just can't imagine if I had lost a child that night," said Montano.

Gibbons says he never thought chatting about games could turn into this.

"It scarred me a little bit whenever I realized what was really happening and that it was true, but at first, it was a lot of unbelief," said Gibbons.

Gibbons says he's lucky he was able to explain to the police what happened because the night could have ended a lot differently. Gibbons says police recommended his family buy a secure VPN so strangers can't track their location.

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A Bonaire family was the victim of 'swatting' early Monday morning after a fake phone call about a hostage situation caused officers to surround their home.

'Swatting' refers to making prank or phony phone calls to emergency dispatch lines in order to bring large numbers of armed law enforcement to a location.

According to a report from the Houston County Sheriff's Office, Jason and Natasha Montano said they were asleep when they woke up to officers at their home on Sage Meadows Lane.

Dispatch received a call around 2:45 a.m. saying the Montano's 19-year-old son, Tristain Gibbons, was barricaded inside the home and holding a man and woman hostage.

The report says the call stated Gibbons had tied up the hostages, poured gas in the room and placed explosives in the house.

The call went on to say Gibbons would shoot any law enforcement that entered the house.

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After officers approached the home on foot, they made contact with Gibbons and the Montanos.

The report says they proceeded to clear the home, and officers found no evidence of any hostages or injuries.

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Gibbons told investigators earlier that night he was streaming to the website Younow, when a user commented on being outside his home. Gibbons said he didn't think anything of it.

Gibbons was unable to pull up the user's information afterwards.

The report says the Montanos were aware their son streamed through the website, but were unaware of any threats.

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