Cops surrounded the Southern California home of the teenager behind the viral Damn Daniel video today, Riverside police Lt. Christian Dinco said.

It was the result of a hoax or, in more contemporary parlance, a swatting, he said.

In fact, SWAT officers did respond to the Riverside home of the video maker, in the 6000 block of Hamilton Drive, at 1 a.m., Dinco said. (The name of the youth was not revealed.)

We had a call to our dispatch center reporting that the caller had shot his mother in the head with an AK-47, he told us. We responded out to the house, surrounded it and ultimately determined it was a hoax or prank call after removing the family from the house.

Damn, Daniel.

It wasn't officially a SWAT call-out, Dinco said, but a few SWAT officers did respond.

We had a lot of police resources to resolve it, he said. After talking to the family they said they had reason to believe that it may be associated with a YouTube video they posted titled 'Damn Daniel.'

Now detectives are trying to track down the caller.

They could be arrested, the lieutenant said. It is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine. If anyone was injured, it could have been a felony.

Damn Daniel is a Vine video series about Riverside area high school students, including Daniel Lara, and their shoes.

Lara is shown wearing white Vans. Someone off-camera says, Damn, Daniel, back at it again with the white Vans.

A pair of Damn Danielthemed white Vans has been bid up into the six figures on eBay, the New York Daily News reports.