![]() ![]() ![]() Barriss, a 26-year-old from Los Angeles, was sentenced in March to 20 years in prison.Īccording to court records, Viner and Gaskill were teammates in Call of Duty: WWII when the two began to argue, Gaskill shot and killed Viner's character in the game. Prosecutors in the case filed charges against Viner and Tyler Barriss, who helped make the actual call. The deadly consequence of the call drew national attention to the "swatting," in which people try to send armed police officers to a home, giving them false information that would make them assume they are responding to a violent and possibly dangerous crime scene. Fearing he was armed, officers shot and killed him.Īfter pleading guilty, Viner admitted he tried to hide his role in the deadly plot when he realized someone had been killed. Viner, prosecutors said, wanted armed police officers to respond to the home of Shane Gaskill, 20, because the two had argued over the video game and a $1.50 wager.īut Gaskill gave Viner the wrong address, and police responded to the home of an unrelated man, Andrew Finch. A 19-year-old who plotted to have a fellow gamer's house "swatted" over an argument that stemmed from the video game Call of Duty: WWII - resulting in a man's death - was sentenced to 15 months in prison Friday.Ĭasey Viner of North College Hill, Ohio, pleaded guilty to conspiring to make fake calls to Wichita police in 2017, prompting officers to think they were dealing with a man who had shot his father. ![]()
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