Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 17 minutes after he was shot. A Wichita police officer standing on the other side of the street fired a single round striking Finch and piercing his heart and right lung. According to officer testimony, he began to do so and then stopped. Finch reports that her 28-year-old son "screamed and then they shot him." Moments after Finch stepped onto his front porch, police ordered him to put his hands up. Andrew Finch is reported by his mother Lisa Finch, who was at the scene, to have seen the police lights outside and opened the front door to see what was happening. Wichita Police Department officers, who were not SWAT team members, untrained for tactical situations or hostage rescues, responded to Barriss' call and surrounded Finch's residence. He asked if police were coming to the house, saying he had already poured gasoline all over the house and was threatening to set it on fire. Barriss, identifying himself as "Brian", claimed that he was at the residence at 1033 West McCormick Street, had fatally shot his father, and was holding family members at gunpoint. Because the call was transferred from Wichita City Hall to 911, the dispatcher believed the call was coming from the Wichita area.
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Using voice over IP through the free Wi-Fi provided by a South Los Angeles library, Barriss called the Wichita police department. Finch was not a known gamer and had nothing to do with the Call of Duty match. Viner then contacted Barriss and provided him with the address given to swat Gaskill. Gaskill's family had been evicted in 2016. Gaskill intentionally gave Viner the wrong address: a place in Wichita where he previously resided with his family, and where he said he would "be waiting". Viner threatened to swat Gaskill over the loss. The two gamers took to Twitter in an argument about the loss. Two men, Casey Viner (known by pseudonym Baperizer) and Shane Gaskill (known by pseudonym Miruhcle), fought over friendly fire in the Call of Duty: WWII match, causing them to lose both the match and $1.50 in wagers.
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Reports surfaced that the deadly series of events reportedly began with an online argument over a $1.50 wager in an online match of Call of Duty: WWII on UMG Gaming, which operates online tournaments, including one involving said game. He was wanted by police in Panama City, Florida, for calling approximately 30 other bomb threats, including one to a high school, and on fraud and mischief charges in Canada for harassing a woman in Calgary. Known online as "SWAuTistic", he had a criminal record including domestic violence, and had served 16 months in Los Angeles County Jail for making false bomb threats against KABC-TV, an elementary school in Los Angeles, and a middle school in Granada Hills. Officer Rapp was not charged for Finch's death.īackground Tyler Barriss Īt the time of the incident, Tyler Raj Barriss was a 25-year-old homeless man living in Los Angeles, California. Viner was sentenced to 2 years' community service and 15 months' imprisonment for his involvement, while Gaskill was sentenced to 2 years' probation. In March 2019, he was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Wichita Police responded to the address, and as Finch was exiting his house, police officer Justin Rapp fatally shot him.īarriss pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and many other charges from unrelated incidents he was wanted for. Viner then asked Tyler Barriss to make the required fraudulent call to initiate the swatting. During the dispute, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted, and Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was occupied by an uninvolved person, Andrew Finch. The incident began as an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill, regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII. The 2017 Wichita swatting occurred on December 28, 2017, in Wichita, Kansas, United States.
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