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Gamers Involved in December's Deadly Swatting Prank Have Been Indicted
credit// Sledgehammer Games The deadly "swatting" prank back in December of 2017, which was started over a Call of Duty match, ended in the death of Andrew Finch, a man wholly unrelated to the match Finch was shot by a police officer summoned to his house after defendant Tyler Barriss allegedly made a 911 call about a fake hostage[...]
call of duty swatting prank
A fight broke out between two Call of Duty players Thursday night that resulted in a "swatting" prank in Wichita, Kansas The prank involves calling a SWAT team to the house of the target However, in this particular instance, the fake 911 call gave the address of a totally unrelated 28-year-old father of two The[...]