Nikki Haley’s parents were home when she was targeted by a “swatting” hoax in December at her home on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, she said on Sunday.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the former South Carolina governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate said that officers had “guns drawn” and pointed at her parents, who were with a caregiver, after police were reportedly falsely directed to her residence on suspicion of a crime.
Haley and her son were not home at the time of the “awful situation,” which was first reported by Reuters .
Haley’s husband, Michael, was also not present as he is currently deployed overseas with the South Carolina National Guard.
According to an email from Kiawah Island’s public safety director to other town officials, obtained by Reuters, the incident occurred on Dec. 30 after a man called 911 and “claimed to have shot his girlfriend and threatened to harm himself while at the residence of Nikki Haley.”
Authorities determined the threat was a hoax, and no known arrests were made.