Arrest made after incident Man Killed in Call of Duty 'Swatting' Case

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A 25-year-old man believed to be behind a swatting incident that led to a fatal police shooting in Wichita, Kansas, has been arrested in Los Angeles, officials say. He has been identified as Tyler Raj Barriss, who is known online as "SWAuTistic."

Barriss, 25, was arrested in South Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. He was taken into custody on a fugitive warrant, according to NBC News, but details about the charges he is currently facing were not immediately available.

Barriss, who has a history of swatting, was arrested in October 2015 and charged with making two bomb threats to ABC7 (KABC-TV). The first one happened on September 30, 2015, when the channel's studios in Glendale, California, were evacuated and searched by police.

The incident in Wichita began at about 6:15 p.m. on Thursday when police received a call stating that someone had killed his father by shooting him in the head. The caller further claimed that the shooter was now holding his mother, brother and sister hostage.

A large number of police officers responded to the scene, believing that people were being held hostage at the location. Andy Finch, a 28-year-old man who was inside the home, was shot and killed by police after he opened the front door.

Earlier on Friday, a man claiming to be "SWAuTistic" was interviewed by Daniel Keem on the YouTube channel DramaAlert. The man admitted to calling police but argued that he was not responsible for the man's death, saying that it was not him who pulled the trigger.


"The argument can be made that the police would never have showed up if I hadn't made the call, however, I don't believe I'm the only guilty party involved in this whole incident, considering I was contacted and, you know, almost instructed to swat, and taunted to swat," he said.

The swatting call followed a dispute between two players of the game "Call of Duty." One of them provided an address which they claimed to be their own, after which the other player is believed to have contacted "SWAuTistic" with a swatting request.

The family of the victim denied being involved in the dispute between the two players. "My son was not a gamer," his mother told The Wichita Eagle newspaper during an interview, adding that her son had opened the door after hearing noises outside.

The man interviewed by Keem, believed to be Barriss, admitted to having made similar calls to police in the past, but added that he would usually give information that would cause a location to be evacuated. "Sometimes people will send me money on PayPal to swat someone," he said.

He also admitted to causing an evacuation at the FCC, the abbreviation for the Federal Communications Commission. Although he provided no specific details, a room at the FCC was evacuated on December 14 as commissioners were preparing to vote on a controversial proposal to repeal net neutrality rules.


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FlachbauPosted:

He totally deserves everything coming his way. Screw this guy.

GeologistPosted:

Thankfully they found him but it's still messed up he did it..

MultiKillsHDPosted:

"I doubt I get caught" followed by getting caught that night is a record.

CraigPosted:

Stop swatting people Mikey!

Exist_Posted:

He's scum but not worthy of a murder sentence. Manslaughter possibly.

RoopPosted:

He looks like the default PUBG character

SilkyPosted:

Holy shitballs this guy looks like Mikey.

MikePosted:

Can't believe this guys got caught lol

SilkyPosted:

Although the swatter deserves a very hefty sentence I really hope the 2 who were also involved face serious consequences. Firstly, the guy who gave a random address provoking and in fact encouraging the other guy to swat should be accessory to manslaughter and the guy who passed on this information to the swatter should also face this charge - despite this it's dissapointing knowing they'll most likely get away with just a slap on the wrist.

GMEPosted:

Sean Anything less than a life sentence for this guy is unacceptable he's done it a handful of times and has been jailed before only for him to do it again resulting in someone being killed. an example needs to be made when it comes to Swatting as its yet to be done and this waste of space is the perfect case for an example to be made.


Life sentence? No, why would i want my tax dollars to fund this scumbags life, he deserves death in the most inhumane way possible he killed a innocent man and he killed that police officer on the inside, the officer now has to live with the fact that he killed a innocent man and all he was doing was following protocol.