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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 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 ...
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 ...
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]
In 2018, following the swatting death of Andrew Finch in Wichita, Kansas, members of Seattle's online broadcaster community contacted Whitcomb, then in charge of public affairs and digital engagement for the Seattle Police Department, to express concerns about swatting.
The swatting resulted in the death of Finch, an innocent man fatally shot by a Wichita police officer who responded to his home at 1033 W. McCormick after Barriss made a fake emergency call about ...
The police officer who fatally shot a man standing on his Wichita, Kans., porch after a bogus 911-call to the police department drew officers there will not be criminally charged, the Sedgwick ...