Last week the FBI arrested 19-year-old John William Kirby Kelley, who it’s alleged was part of a group responsible for a range of dangerous swatting incidents. Kelley was also, and I type this with my most surprised face, part of a number of openly racist Steam groups.
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A release from the ADL, who assisted the FBI and LAPD with its investigation, says Kelley was part of a number of neo-Nazi IRC groups who targeted “government officials, executives and journalists” along with “other targets [who] were chosen based on the perpetrators’ racist and anti-Semitic views.”
He was also a member of at least two Steam groups, as the ADL report:
Another alleged target of Kelley and his accomplices was streamer Andrea “Cyberdemon531” Rovenski, who as VICE report was “tackled to the ground” by police during a swatting in 2018, while her mother was “manhandled.”
Kelley and his ties were uncovered in late 2018 when he called in both a shooting and a bomb threat to his own school to avoid having to go to class, then accidentally called them back only a few hours later, leaving a voice sample for authorities to compare and identify him.
