CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was "swatted" Tuesday morning, prompting deputies to respond to their Parkland home. 
 
 A call came into the Coral Springs Police Department claiming a hostage situation at the home. 
 
 When a Broward Sheriff's Office SWAT team arrived at the scene, they found no hostage situation and determined the call was a prank. 
 
 Hogg was not home at the time of the incident and is currently in Washington with his mother to accept the RFK Human Rights award. 
 
 In a phone call with Local 10 News, Hogg sounded off about the prank call, which led to the massive law enforcement presence at his home. 
 
 "I think it's really a distraction from what we're trying to fix here, which is the massive gun-violence epidemic in this country," Hogg told Local 10 News reporter Liane Morejon. 
 
 Hogg said he found out about the swatting incident through a phone call from a friend. 
 
 Sky 10 was over the home as units were staged outside as a precaution. BSO deputies and a BSO helicopter swarmed the neighborhood. 
 
 Swatting is the action of making a prank emergency call to bring about a response of armed law enforcement officers. 
 
 Neighbors who spoke to Local 10 News reporter Alex Finnie said the incident put them on edge. 
 
 "Today, we're walking -- we're going for a walk, and we saw some helicopters here, so we're like, 'Oh my God. What's going on?'" Marcia Marques said. "We are still trying to overcome everything because everything is very difficult, but that episode made us feel more attentive." 
 
 "Two police cars, two motorcycles. We should be doing better," Courtney Keisen, who lives in the neighborhood and attends Stoneman Douglas, said. "Something like this shouldn't happen a lot." 
 
 Since the shootings at Stoneman Douglas, Hogg has been a prominent advocate for gun safety. However, Hogg has been a lightning rod for controversy as some do not approve of his methods, such as holding a "die-in" protest at a Coral Springs Publix last week. 
 
 Hogg said the incident is "evidence of the fact of how many people are trying to stop us from what we're trying to do, which is stop these kids from dying." 
 
 "There's people trying to distract from what we're trying to push here, which is the March For Our Lives Road To Change," Hogg said. "And I want people to know, like, we're just trying to advocate for change. There's going to be people against it and always will be, but we're going to keep going no matter what. Nothing will stop us." 
 
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 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg speaks during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm, AFP/Getty Images) 
 
 The family home of Florida school shooting survivor and gun-law activist David Hogg was "swatted" on Tuesday, leading to swift and heavy police response and a lockdown of at least one local elementary school, authorities said. 
 
 "It was a hoax call," Broward County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Gina Carter said. 
 
 Carter said a 911 call came in at 8:39 a.m. that someone was at the home with a weapon, Carter said. 
 
 "A SWAT team responded and cleared the home," she said. "We are investigating who made the call." 
 
 She said the lockdown at an area elementary school was quickly lifted. 
 
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 Hogg, 18, made no direct mention of the incident on Twitter, where he has amassed more than 800,000 followers. He did, however, tweet shortly after the incident that "I could really use a chocolate chip muffin right now." 
 
 Hogg graduated Sunday from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. He was one of several students thrust into the spotlight after the Valentine's Day shooting rampage at his school left 17 students and staff dead and more than a dozen wounded. 
 
 Hogg was a leader of the March for Our Lives, which prompted hundreds of rallies and marches across the nation and around the world demanding safe schools and stricter gun laws. He was accepted at the University of California-Irvine but has said he will take a "gap year" to promote voting among young people ahead of the November midterm elections. 
 
 He and about two dozen Parkland students are launching the March for Our Lives Road to Change next week. The two-month bus tour will make at least 75 stops in more than 20 states. 
 
 "We’re going to places where the NRA has bought and paid for politicians who refuse to take simple steps to save our lives," the March for Our Lives leaders said in a statement. The group will visit communities affected by gun violence "to meet fellow survivors and use our voices to amplify theirs." 
 
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 PARKLAND, FLA. (WSVN) - Members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT team responded to the home of activist David Hogg after someone made a prank hostage call. 
 
 According to BSO, deputies received a call at around 8:30 a.m., saying someone broke into Hogg’s home with an AR-15 rifle and was holding the family hostage. 
 
 Deputies determined that no one was home at the time and that the call was unfounded. 
 
 Hogg is currently in Washington D.C. to meet with senators regarding future March For Our Lives activities. 
 
 Hogg and a large group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas have arisen as activists for gun reform after 17 people were gunned down at their school on Feb. 14. 
 
 In a phone conversation, Hogg said this prank is simply just a distraction from the work he and his classmates are trying to accomplish. 
 
 “[They’re] trying to distract people from the March For Our Lives Road to Change, which we announced yesterday,” Hogg said. “[It’s] a push to get the highest numbers of youth voters ever in American history turn out to vote come this November.” 
 
 Hunter Pollack, the older brother of shooting victim Meadow Pollack, tweeted his outrage upon hearing of the prank. 
 
 “Who would false report @davidhogg111 and family being hostage. Find out who it is, and lock him up. Parkland parents are running around in frantic, and some sicko is laughing #FixIT.” 
 
 The Broward Sheriff’s Office said they plan to investigate and arrest the person behind the call. 
 
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– David Hogg, the Parkland school shooting survivor who has been called an actor by a GOP aide and a liar by a political candidate, bullied by conspiracy theorists, mocked by Laura Ingraham, called rude names by Sylvester Stallone's brother, and threatened by a TV commentator, endured more fallout from his outspoken gun-control activism Tuesday morning when someone "swatted" his family's Florida home. The prank involves calling in a fake report to 911 and giving the victim's address, thus causing law enforcement to respond. In this case, someone called in a hostage situation to the Broward County Sheriff's Office and deputies responded to the 18-year-old's home before determining the call had been a hoax, Local 10 reports. The sheriff's office is investigating who was behind the call, WSVN reports. Hogg, who graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Sunday and was in Washington with his mother to accept the RFK Human Rights Award when his home was swatted, told the news station when asked about the prank that "I think it's really a distraction from what we're trying to fix here, which is the massive gun-violence epidemic in this country." Local 10 has video of the Hogg home during the incident, in which police cars, motorcycles, and a helicopter were deployed to the neighborhood. At least one local elementary school was placed on lockdown as a result, USA Today reports. Hogg said this is "evidence of the fact of how many people are trying to stop us from what we're trying to do, which is stop these kids from dying." Even so, he said, "Nothing will stop us." (The Parkland students' March for Our Lives activist group is going on a bus tour.)