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At least one case of swatting has led to the death of the individual to whose home police were sent. In 2017, a swatting that targeted a Wichita, Kansas, man named Andrew Finch escalated.
At the time of the incident, Tyler Rai Barriss was a 25-year-old homeless man living in Los Angeles, California.Known online as "SWAuTistic", he had a criminal record including domestic violence, [3] and had served 16 months in Los Angeles County Jail for making false bomb threats against KABC-TV, an elementary school in Los Angeles, and a middle school in Granada Hills.
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]
Marjorie Taylor Greene shares ‘death threat’ received days before Christmas swatting incident Mike Bedigan and Katie Hawkinson December 26, 2023 at 11:02 AM
At the time of the incident, Shane Sonderman was a 20-year-old resident of Lauderdale County, Tennessee. Sonderman had been a part of a group of people on the instant messaging platform Discord that was responsible for carrying out multiple other swatting and extortion attacks on people with usernames on platforms considered valuable. [2] [3]
A first-degree offense is similar to the second and third-degree offences but will involve the death of a person. The penalty can be up to two decades in prison and as much as $200,000 in fines.
A California teenager allegedly behind a flurry of swatting incidents across the country targeting schools and FBI agents’ homes was arrested in connection with a swatting attempt at a Florida ...
A federal judge in Washington, DC, is just one of the latest high-profile victims in a new wave of “swatting” incidents occurring during an election season security experts fear will be marked ...