A bride-to-be woke up at midnight one week before her wedding to the sound of a megaphone — and found about 15 armed police officers surrounding the apartment she shared with her fiance.
TikTok creator Sabri, posting as @SABRIDIGENN, shared the account in a two-part TikTok series that has now gone viral, Morning Honey reported on November 4.
‘Am I about to marry a killer?’
Sabri counted about 15 officers carrying rifles and shields and wearing helmets. Her fiance is a police officer, and her first reaction was: “This must be a prank.” Then she saw the officers in helmets and thought: “Am I about to marry a killer?”
Officers shouted at her fiance to raise his hands higher, get on the floor and turn around. The megaphone called her name next. “Am I about to watch my future, soon-to-be husband get unalived? Are they just gonna take him and leave me here?” she remembered asking herself.
A hoax 911 call
Sabri said an unidentified person phoned 911 from a fake number and claimed to have killed their father before threatening suicide. The FBI describes swatting as a hoax 911 call meant to draw a law enforcement response, usually from a SWAT team.
The post has drawn comments from viewers sharing their own advice and similar experiences, and Sabri’s story is the latest reminder that swatting is not a prank — it puts real people and real officers in danger in the middle of the night.
Swatting is a growing problem: hoax callers use fake numbers to send armed officers to an innocent person’s home, and the consequences can be deadly. The FBI has warned that swatting calls waste police resources and put both residents and officers at risk. Sabri’s story, shared a week before her wedding, is a reminder that the victims are ordinary people — and that a prank call can turn into a life-threatening encounter in the middle of the night.
