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2017 Wichita swatting. 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 ...
Prosecutors believe Finch’s death was the first deadly swatting case in history. His family received a $5 million settlement from the city in March 2023. Contributing: Amy Renee Leiker with The ...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a proclamation to honor the three victims of the shooting and declared March 16 as Indian American Appreciation day. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 14 ] Members of India House Houston later raised $100,000 to honor the white American who came to the aid of the victims.
July 5, 2022 at 3:41 PM. The Wichita Eagle. 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 ...
July 3, 2022 at 5:53 AM. 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 ...
Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation ...
September 27, 2022 at 1:56 PM. A 23-year-old Wichita man will spend 18 months in prison for his role in a deadly hoax emergency call that resulted in police killing an innocent man on his front ...
Sean Whitcomb. 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]