Ace Nova Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.html Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter posts that the shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a “swatting” hoax involving two gamers. Swatting happened when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime – often with killing or hostages involved – in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address. Swatting has gained traction across the country with online gamers. Those who try to cause the swatting incident will use caller ID spoofing or other techniques to disguise their number as being local. Or they call local non-emergency numbers instead of 911, according to 911.com Deputy Wichita Police Chief Troy Livingston said Thursday night that police were looking into whether the call that led to the shooting was a case of swatting. Livingston said the department received a call that someone had an argument with their mother, that the father had been shot in the head and the shooter was holding his mother, brother and sister hostage. “That was the information we were working off of,” he said 'Swatting' led to fatal shooting of Andrew Finch, police say During a police briefing at City Hall on Friday afternoon, Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston describes the events that led to the fatal shooting of Andrew Finch by a Wichita police officer. (Video by Fernando Salazar / Dec. 29, 2017) fsalazar@wichitaeagle.com Officers went to the 1000 block of McCormick, preparing for a hostage situation and they “got into position,” he said. “A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.” Livingston didn’t say if the man, who was 28, had a weapon when he came to the door, or what caused the officer to shoot the man. Police don’t think the man fired at officers, but the incident is still under investigation, he said. The man, who has not been identified by police, died at a local hospital. A family member identified that man who was shot by police as Andrew Finch. One of Finch’s cousins said Finch didn’t play video games. “This call was little peculiar for us,” Livingston said. “(The call) went to a substation first, then it was relayed to dispatch, then dispatch gave it to us. We have a lot of information to go through.” “I DIDNT GET ANYONE KILLED BECAUSE I DIDNT DISCHARGE A WEAPON AND BEING A SWAT MEMBER ISNT MY PROFESSION,” said one gamer, who others said made the swatting call. His account was suspended overnight. According to posts on Twitter, two gamers were arguing when one threatened to target the other with a swatting call. The person who was the target of the swatting gave the other gamer a false address, which sent police to a nearby home instead of his own, according to Twitter posts. The person who was to be the target of the swatting sent a Tweet saying, “Someone tried to swat me and got an innocent man killed.” Livingston, the deputy police chief, would only provide the block number of the home where the shooting occurred, not the specific address. Police were seen in the front yards of two houses across from each other at the corner of Seneca and McCormick. Dexerto, a online news service focused on gaming and the Call of Duty game, reported the argument began over a $1 or $2 wager over the game. “Normally this is a prank, but due to the high stress situation, sometimes it is closer to a death threat from a user trying to get cops to kill them,” one man told The Eagle in an email. The officer who fired the shot — a seven-year veteran of the police department — will be placed on administrative paid leave, which is department policy. Police expect to release more information later Friday. How sad and tragic. An innocent man gets killed because a couple of gamers decided to pull a prank. Wth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Nova Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 Just now, Oldest Goat said: People who do 'swatting' are fucking stupid mongoloids. Is it a common thing in the gaming community? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Read about this yesterday. Sad fucking sad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 26 minutes ago, Kasanova King said: How sad and tragic. An innocent man gets killed because another incompetent pig was trigger happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Nova Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 2 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said: Maybe...but they shouldn't of been called there to begin with, thinking there was an active shooter who had just killed family members and taken other ones hostage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Wow, that's grim, go to the door, get shot by the people who're supposed to be protecting you. Probably wouldn't happen in countries without the US's gun culture though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 1 minute ago, Kasanova King said: Maybe...but they shouldn't of been called there to begin with, thinking there was an active shooter who had just killed family members and taken other ones hostage. Obviously they shouldn't have been called there and the prank was retarded. But the only murderer in that story got a paid holiday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Nova Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 Apparently the guy that called the police has been arrested in L.A. He had been previously arrested in 2015 for calling in bomb threats at a local television station in L.A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cantona Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 10 hours ago, Kasanova King said: Is it a common thing in the gaming community? Very common Fucking knew someone would get killed eventually 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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