Grand Theft Auto V voice actor Ned Luke was swatted while playing GTA Online during a Thanksgiving livestream. Ned Luke, who's best known his role as Michael De Santa in GTA V, has spent recent years showing up at conventions, hosting livestreams on his YouTube channel, answering fan questions, and more. Recently, the 65-year-old actor has been playing Grand Theft Auto V for the open-world action/adventure game's 10-year anniversary and frequently plays with fans on GTA Online.
The goal of swatting a streamer is to elicit a police response from the SWAT team after someone anonymously files a false report with law enforcement, claiming there's some type of emergency at a streamer's location. This usually results in a group of police showing up with ARs and other heavy weaponry and can often result to streamer's doors being kicked down. People have died in the past because of this, and it clearly continues to be a problem in the streaming community.
Grand Theft Auto 5 voice actor Ned Luke ends the stream early after being swatted.
Ned Luke has become the latest victim of swatting while he was playing GTA Online during Thanksgiving with his community. His stream was cut short after he received a phone call from someone notifying him that police had arrived outside. He announced to his viewers that he had to go become someone swatted his house, and ended the stream after telling his fans, "Have a good one."
You can watch the clip of Ned Luke getting swatted in the clip below:
At the time of this writing, Luke hasn’t updated further to the incident, but he tweeted an image of his Memoji shrugging:
Recently, Luke teased his potential return as Michael for GTA 6, the next Grand Theft Auto game that's expected to be revealed in early December 2023 after Rockstar announced their plan to release the first trailer for it. However, Rockstar hasn't officially confirmed if he will return in the highly-anticipated game.
