Nicki Minaj seemed to be the target of a brewing call saying that a shooter was his Hidden Hills residence on Wednesday evening.
At 7:05 p.m., the Sheriff’s Department of the County of Los Angeles received an assault report with a deadly weapon in the community, according to a spokesperson for the department. The appellant said that a friend had shot a black woman and that two possible suspects were in the place bearing all black, said the spokesperson.
The report was later determined as a call to cut – a false call to 911 launched with the deliberate intention of triggering a response to the police – while the deputies arrived on the scene and found no evidence of a crime, according to the supervisory commander of the Sheriff station of Lost Hills.
The Sheriff department would not say if the call was for the house of the hip-hop artist, but a neighbor confirmed at the time when the police responded to the residence of Minaj.
It bought a sprawling property of 12,000 square feet for $ 19.5 million in 2022 in the same exclusive enclave of the San Fernando Valley where many of the Kardashians have luxurious houses, according to TMZ reports.
The spokesperson said the call entered a business line and was the only report received for an assault with a fatal weapon at the address – the two common signs of cut. The corporate line makes it more difficult to trace the identity of the appellant and, in the case of credible violence reports, the authorities generally receive several calls from 911, he said.
It was not the first time that the awarded artist at the Grammy Award seemed targeted by Swatters.
The Sheriff deputies responded to Minaj’s home in June 2023 following a false relationship of child abuse and, a month later, to a false report of a shooting, according to TMZ.
Brewing calls are a growing problem in southern California and across the country. The FBI reported in January 2024 that agents opened surveys on more than 100 separate threats targeting more than 1,000 institutions in 42 states in a single period of one month.
Many celebrities in the Los Angeles region have been recent victims, notably Jennifer Aniston, Jojo Siwa and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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