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Tyler Barriss

Serial ‘swatter’ prank hostage call gets innocent father killed by police. He’ll now spend 20 years behind bars.

Serial ‘swatter’ prank hostage call gets innocent father killed by police. He’ll now spend 20 years behind bars.
Technology and Crime

A California man will spend 20 years in federal prison for making a prank call to Kansas police that resulted in a man’s shooting death. According to NBC News, Tyler Barriss, 26, was sentenced Friday for 51 charges related to various prank calls he made, including one that directly resulted in the December 2017 death of …

Serial ‘swatter’ admits to making prank hostage 911 call that led to unarmed victim being shot dead by police [Report]
Technology and Crime
November 14, 2018

Serial ‘swatter’ admits to making prank hostage 911 call that led to unarmed victim being shot dead by police [Report]

A Kansas man admitted to making the prank emergency call that resulted in police shooting an innocent man in front of his home last year. Per The Wichita Eagle, Tyler Barriss, 26, pleaded guilty to 51 federal charges not only related to the December 2017 death of Andrew Finch, 28, but for reporting fake bomb threats, …

Suspected prank caller faces felony charges when hoax emergency call ends in fatal police shooting of innocent Kansas man
Police
January 3, 2018

Suspected prank caller faces felony charges when hoax emergency call ends in fatal police shooting of innocent Kansas man

Police have said Andrew Finch, 28, was shot after a prankster called 911 last week with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at Finch’s Wichita home.

Man accused of deadly ‘swatting’ prank in Kansas previously made false bomb threats in LA
Fraud
December 30, 2017

Man accused of deadly ‘swatting’ prank in Kansas previously made false bomb threats in LA

An ABC affiliate in Los Angeles revealed new details about the suspect behind a hoax that turned deadly for an innocent man in Kansas. According to KABC, Tyler Raj Barriss was convicted in 2015 on charges that he made false bomb threats to the station. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Witchita police officers responded to the …

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