Gaming grandma swatted whereas streaming to pay grandson’s medical payments

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (KPNX) – An Arizona grandmother who went viral for enjoying video video games to assist pay for her grandson’s medical payments says her house was swatted throughout a livestream fundraiser.

Sue Jacquot, identified on-line as “GrammaCrackers,” has constructed a following of greater than 600,000 YouTube subscribers by making Minecraft movies along with her grandsons, Jack and Austin Self.

The 81-year-old and her household lately started a 24/7 livestream fundraiser to assist cowl Jack Self’s medical bills for most cancers therapy.

“He’s had 200 chemo treatments in like a year and a half, and that’s a lot of expensive bills that the insurance company won’t touch,” Jacquot stated.

The household had been streaming for practically 15 steady days when somebody made a false report Monday that Jacquot had been shot and killed. It was a swatting name, wherein somebody falsely stories a violent emergency to 911 in an try and immediate a big police response.

“We got a call that Jack shot his grandma and killed her and that he was going to kill himself, and right then, I was like, ‘Whoa,’” Jack Self stated. “It was kind of like a punch to the stomach.”

The household says greater than a dozen Queen Creek law enforcement officials in full tactical gear swarmed the house.

The livestream confirmed officers coming into Jacquot’s room, the place she was asleep, and waking her up.

“They just sort of escorted me out, and they were apologizing,” Jacquot stated. “I just wondered what my grandkids had done.”

Despite the scare, Jacquot says she has no plans to cease streaming.

“They’re not going to tell me what I can do. They’re not going to make me afraid to do that,” she stated.

Police are investigating the incident.