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Police with guns stormed a downtown Casper apartment Friday afternoon because an online bully called in a false report to harass the man living there, he said.

Josh Saunders, an internet personality known as KingCobraJFS, told the Star-Tribune from his Center Street apartment that a heavily armed police response came in response to someone impersonating him in a phone call to police. The caller, Saunders said, threatened to shoot his wife and children. Saunders is single, childless and lives alone.

A video posted live to Saunders’ YouTube stream shows police entering his apartment, interrupting a conversation with his internet audience. They can be seen searching the apartment.

Saunders, 28, said that he began streaming — filming and uploading videos in real time — shortly after his graduation from Natrona County High School. He said the bullying that followed him from school-to-school in childhood has showed up online. The call, Saunders said, is an extreme example of such conduct.

He would not be the first person made the victim of a hoax that brought armed police to his door. Such hoaxes have a name: swatting. And they can be deadly. Two years ago, police in Wichita, Kansas, killed a man while responding to what later turned out to be a hoax call made from someone in California.