Swatting is “the action or practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address.”. Just recently, a California man by the name of Tyler Raj Barriss was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a prank call that ended up killing innocent man Andrew Finch over an online gaming dispute. Barriss told the police that “he was holding his mom and brother at gunpoint” and “he wants to kill himself and light the house on fire”. When the police arrived at Finch's house, he walked outside and was shot when he dropped his hands after being told to raise them. He later died at a nearby hospital.
https://whnt.com/2019/03/29/his-swatting-call-led-to-the-death-of-a-man-in-california-now-he-is-going-to-federal-prison-for-20-years/
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