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Armed officers in Kentucky responded to a 911 call from a 17-year-old, who admitted to killing two people, only to discover that the emergency call was an accidental ‘knock-in’ while the teen was playing a video game.
Elijah Sierocki had been playing Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, a popular online first-person shooter, on January 5, when police broke into his home after the wrong call.
Sierocki had inadvertently admitted to a double homicide, which he did not commit, during a 4-minute call to emergency services that left the teenager “shaking for 4 hours” while police searched his home.
The 17-year-old uploaded footage of the incident in which he tries to explain the failed call to officers who can be seen pointing their guns directly at him.
Elijah Sierocki had been playing Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, a popular online first-person shooter, on Jan. 5 when police stormed into his home following the erroneous 911 call.
Walking out of his house, arms raised, Sierocki begins to explain to the officers that their promptness, just minutes after the call was made, had been unnecessary.
“I was playing and I dialed the phone,” he can be heard saying, his voice seeming to shake as he speaks to the armed officers.
“Okay, are you sure?” the armed officer is heard saying from a distance as Sierocki stands frozen outside his home.
‘What? No, no, it’s just me at home,” Sierocki continues.
‘Call him,’ said an officer. “Keep walking towards us,” another is heard saying as Sierocki slowly begins to walk out of the house toward the officers.
‘Everyone in, okay?’ asks an officer who appears to be offscreen in Ring camera footage.
“Nobody’s inside, it’s just me,” Sierocki said.
‘Okay, get him out,’ said an officer. ‘Hey buddy, what’s your name?’ another is heard asking as Sierocki approaches the officers.
Walking out of his house, arms raised, Sierocki begins to explain to the officers that their prompt response, just minutes after the call was placed, had been unnecessary.
The teen said he believes the call was made using the iPhone’s emergency call feature. He complied with the police when they arrived at his house armed and ready to take down a would-be killer.
‘The officer asks while stopping Elijah: ‘Who is your favorite operator?’ referring to the playable characters in the video game
The officers are then seen walking towards Sierocki, who is seen twirling his arms still in the air.
He then lowers his arms and places them behind his back as one officer puts handcuffs on him while another continues to point a gun at him.
‘Were you playing video games?’ one of the officers asks, ‘yes, he said it was,’ said another.
speaking to Law and Crime Sam Goldberg on his podcast, After Hours, Sierocki said he only noticed the call when he picked up his phone after the video game kill to watch a TikTok.
So, I took my phone to watch TikTok, that’s what I used to do when I died, and I see a call on my phone. It’s 911,’ he said.
‘I started to freak out. I got three calls from dispatch trying to call me to find out what’s going on.
“In no more than two minutes, my dogs start barking at the front door, and they’re pretty smart dogs, and they’ll run up to me on the couch in the other room and run back to the front door.”
The teen said he believes the call was made by the iPhone’s emergency call feature that occurs when the volume and power buttons are pressed simultaneously.
The officers, still armed, watch as Sierocki walks towards them after he inadvertently admitted to a double homicide that he didn’t commit.
He then lowered his arms and put them behind his back as one officer puts handcuffs on him while another continues to point a gun at him.
“There are four police patrol cars out there,” he said.
“I have two decisions: either I stay inside and they knock on the front door or I go out with my hands up.
‘So, I’m like, ‘if I walk outside with my hands up, what’s going to go wrong?’
As he was walking outside, he said, he noticed one of the deputies to his right pointing a gun at him.
“It scares me,” Sierocki said. ‘Because she jumped a bit.’
During the resulting encounter, the teen said he had been questioned about what was really going on, subject to a pat-down, and asked to place his hands behind his back, all with a gun still pointed at him.
Sierocki said he was “shaking so bad” that a friend who had been at the Xbox online party echoed this.
“He was afraid that a gun would be pointed at him,” the friend said.
‘The officer asks while stopping Elijah: ‘Who is your favorite operator?’ referring to the playable characters in the video game that the 17-year-old had immersed himself in before the police arrived.
In an email to the outlet, a spokesperson for the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said they “would need to get more information about the incident before commenting.”
They said they were “in the process of collecting body camera video in response to an open records request” filed by Law & Crime.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is an Online Tactical Shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
Players will often “kill” characters in-game, which likely led Sierocki to make the comment that the police seemed to have taken out of context.
Sierocki said there were no hard feelings: ‘I said I killed two people. I understand what they are trying to do.
‘They performed the procedure very, very professionally. They handled it pretty well.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is an Online Tactical Shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on December 1, 2015.
It was also released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S exactly five years later on December 1, 2020.
The game places a heavy emphasis on environmental destruction and cooperation between players.
Each player takes control of either an attacker or a defender in different game modes, such as rescuing a hostage, defusing a bomb, and taking control of an objective within a room.
Players will often “kill” characters within the game, likely leading Sierocki to make the comment that the police appeared to have taken out of context.