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On December 28, 2017, a fatal swatting incident occurred in Wichita, Kansas, United States. During an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted. Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was occupied by an ...
The swatting left 28-year-old father of two Andrew Finch dead on Dec. 28, 2017, from a gunshot fired by a Wichita police officer among law enforcement responding to what was later deemed a false ...
A 25-year-old Wichita man who was recently released from prison after serving a sentence for his involvement in the 2017 fatal swatting call that claimed the life of Andrew Finch is in more ...
An online gamer makes a series of fraudulent 9-1-1 phone calls to lure police SWAT teams to innocent people's homes, known as swatting. [ 6 ] Presented case: 2017 Wichita swatting in Wichita, Kansas
The Wichita police officer who shot and killed Andrew Finch in a now-infamous 2017 swatting incident will face a Sedgwick County jury in an excessive force civil case being brought by Finch’s ...
Sean Whitcomb is an internet safety advocate and creator of the first anti-swatting registry. [1] He retired from American law enforcement in 2020 to pursue a career in the video game industry. [2] [3] [4]
The Wichita Police Department has promoted the officer who pulled the trigger in the nation’s first deadly “swatting” call, a move the mayor and two city council members said could undermine ...
The swatting was organized in an attempt to force him to give up his Twitter handle "@tennessee". Shane Sonderman was sentenced to five years in prison for the swatting, and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. A 16-year-old in the United Kingdom was also involved, but they could not be extradited or identified due to their age as a juvenile. [51] [52]