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Los Angeles man arrested in ‘swatting’ call that preceded fatal police
shooting in Kansas
by ANDREW BLANKSTEIN and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles police arrested a 25-year-old man in a suspected "swatting" hoax
911 call in Kansas that ended in the fatal police shooting of an unarmed
man.
The LAPD took Tyler Barriss of Los Angeles into custody in that city on
Friday afternoon, on a fugitive warrant stemming from the Thursday evening
incident in Kansas, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Police in Wichita fatally shot a man identified by family members as Andrew
Finch, 28, after officers responded to a hoax 911 call, police in Kansas
said.
Barriss allegedly made the false report after getting into some kind of
dispute with another person in connection with online gaming, and Barriss
allegedly gave authorities the address that he believed that person lived at
, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.
But instead the address was for Finch's home, who was not involved in the
dispute, the sources said.
The caller claimed his father had been shot in the head, and that he was
holding his mother and a sibling at gunpoint, according to police audio
played at a press conference in Wichita Friday.
Officers surrounded the home bracing for a hostage situation, when the man
identified as Finch went to the door police told him to put his hands up,
and an officer fired after the man moved his hand toward the area of his
waistband, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston said.
Finch was unarmed, he said. "Due to the actions of a prankster we have an
innocent victim," Livingston said.
The officer who fired the single shot, a seven-year veteran of the
department, is on paid leave pending an investigation.
"We believe this incident is a case of 'swatting,'" Livingston said. He said
the shooting was "a tragic and senseless act" and that "the incident is a
nightmare for everyone involved, including the family and our police
department."
The Finch family on Friday allowed reporters inside their home. Lisa Finch
told them her son was not a gamer.
"What gives the cops the right to open fire?" she asked. "That cop murdered
my son over a false report in the first place."
Dexerto, an online news service focused on gaming, reported that the series
of events began with an online argument over a $1 or $2 wager in a "Call of
Duty" game on UMG Gaming, which operates online tournaments including one
involving "Call of Duty."
Image: Wichita
Wichita police investigate the 911 call near the corner of McCormick and
Seneca on Dec. 28, 2017 in Wichita, Kansas. Fernando Salazar / The Wichita
Eagle via AP
"We woke this morning to horrible news about an innocent man losing his life
," Shannon Gerritzen, a UMG vice president, said in an email to The
Associated Press. "Our hearts go out to his loved ones. We are doing
everything we can to assist the authorities in this matter." She declined to
disclose other details.
Barriss was taken into custody in South Los Angeles, and had been living at
a transitional recovery center, sources said.
The FBI estimates that roughly 400 cases of swatting occur annually, with
some using caller ID spoofing to disguise their number. An FBI supervisor in
Kansas City, Missouri, which covers all of Kansas, said the agency joined
in the investigation at the request of local police.
In 2012, LAPD Hollywood Division Detectives arrested a then-12-year-old boy
in connection with so-called "swatting" calls that manipulated the 911
system to allege violent crimes in progress at the homes of celebrities such
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