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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2019Posted:

What a childish mf. 25 and doing 14 year old things. For a game.

FamousPosted:

czm bruhh his head was round asf. this guy lame asf anyway


Oh god, when I first saw this I was like wtf.

KatePosted:

bruhh his head was round asf. this guy lame asf anyway

LokePosted:

thats bad news i never liked pranks

TacoTakerPosted:

Sucks to be the guy who died but I'm LMFAO at the grown ass excuse of a man who got em killed. I really hope he gets what he deserves inside prison walls.

BrigandPosted:

From what I read and searched up, involuntary manslaughter is the most likely sentence that will be given to this piece of shit. Hoping he gets dealt a harsher sentence than just 2-4 years imprisonment. Ain't so inconspicuous now. Truly deserves whats coming to him.

UnfulfilledPosted:

That just shows you're not anonymous Online

FamousPosted:

He is going to prison and will be their for a long long long time.

SavitarPosted:

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


It will more than likely be manslaughter, sadly.

MazePosted:

He's gonna have fun in prison