Serial SWATter Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter
Summary: Tyler Raj Barriss, a 25-year-old serial swatter known online as "SWAuTistic," was charged with involuntary manslaughter and making a false alarm after his December 28, 2017 fake hostage call to Wichita, Kansas police led officers to shoot and kill 28-year-old Andrew Finch, an unarmed father of two. Barriss, who was arrested in Los Angeles, extradited to a Wichita jail, and held on $500,000 bond, faces up to 11 years and three months in prison; he had claimed credit for roughly 100 school and 10 home fake calls and was previously convicted in 2016 for a bomb threat to an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles.
What's compelling: A hoax placed from another state ended with an unarmed man dead in his mother's doorway, and the caller now faces a maximum of 11 years and three months - a sentence that will be weighed against a victim's family and a police shooting still under internal investigation.
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