Man Who Hired Deadly Swatting Gets 15 Months
Summary: Casey S. Viner, 18, of the Cincinnati area, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy and obstructing justice for recruiting serial swatter Tyler R. Barriss to fake a hostage call over a $1.50 Call of Duty dispute. Barriss's Dec. 28, 2017 call to Wichita emergency operators sent police to an address no longer held by the intended target, where 28-year-old Andrew Finch, a father of two, was shot and killed by a Wichita police officer; Barriss was sentenced earlier to 20 years, and Viner was also ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution and serve two years of supervised release.
What you should know: A $1.50 in-game wager ended with an uninvolved father of two dead, and the person who supplied the address and asked for the swat received 15 months and a $2,500 restitution order - a gap that speaks to how little the legal system can price an innocent life lost to a hoax call.
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