BOCA RATON, Fla. – Police officers evacuated a shopping mall on Saturday afternoon in Palm Beach County.
According to the Boca Raton Police Department, the evacuation was “a precaution” after a caller made a threat from the north parking lot of Town Center at Boca Raton.
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Cody Conrad, a celebrity gamer known as Clix, shared a video saying police officers wrongly identified him as the threat when one of his followers “swatted” him referring to a harassment ploy to get emergency services to send a response team.
“We can’t get out of the mall because one of you guys swatted the mall and said there is a shooting going on in here next to my [expletive] car,” Conrad said during his livestream on Twitch. “All the [expletive] stores are locked down. You literally can’t get out of the [expletive] building.”
Earlier in the day, Conrad’s livestream shows him shopping at the mall and later it shows him walking in the parking lot when a group of fans rushed him screaming. The video shows Conrad stopping to greet them. Then he talked about the “swatting.”
The Twitch livestream had several interruptions. When the livestream reconnected, Conrad, a Fortnite competitive player with millions of followers, said he heard people screaming in fear over the false shooting threat at the mall at 6000 Glades Road.
“Whoever did that in my stream, every single person is scared,” Conrad, also known as Cody Conrod, said.
Related on social media: Livestream on Twitch (WARNING: Expletives) Note: Forward to 2:41:28
This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.