Feds charge California man, 2 gamers in deadly hoax call
May 24, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors indicted Wednesday two online gamers and the California man accused of making the hoax calls that led a police officer to fatally shoot an unarmed man in Kansas.
The indictment charged Tyler Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles with conspiracy to make false reports, making false reports and hoaxes, cyberstalking, making interstate threats, making interstate threats to harm by fire and wire fraud.
Also charged were the two gamers playing Call of Duty: WWII online that led to the "swatting," a practice in which a person makes a false report to get emergency respon...
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