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Old 31-12-2017, 02:38 PM #1
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Default American News: police shoot man dead responding to hoax 'swatting' call

https://news.sky.com/story/arrest-af...-call-11189742
The call is said to have followed a dispute between two online gamers playing first-person shooter Call of Duty.
Police have reportedly made an arrest after a hoax emergency call led to an unarmed man being shot dead in a so-called "swatting" incident.

Los Angeles Police detained 25-year-old Tyler Barriss, according to NBC News, after officers more than 1,300 miles away in Kansas fatally shot 28-year-old Andrew Finch.
The arrest comes after police said a prankster had lured officers to a house in the city of Wichita on Thursday.

The practice of "swatting", most common among online gamers, involves making false emergency calls to get a heavily armed SWAT team to attend a location.

This is the hoax call the police responded to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-u...eath-explained
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