Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting (kansas.com)

A newly-released affidavit reveals that money was at stake in a game of Call Of Duty: World War II which led to the fatal real-life police shooting of Andrew Finch. The Wichita Eagle reports: Investigators learned that Shane Gaskill, who lives in Wichita, was involved in an online video game with other people when he accidentally [virtually] shot and killed one of his teammates in the online game. The teammate who was killed in the game became "extremely upset" and began talking trash to Gaskill, the affidavit says. The dispute escalated until the teammate, who the document identifies as Casey Viner of North College Hill, Ohio, threatened via Twitter to "SWATT" Gaskill, according to the affidavit. Gaskill replied, "Please try some s---." He then posted the address...
Viner "is considered a suspect in several 'swatting' incidents in Cincinnati," reports the Los Angeles Times, adding that prosecutors are still deciding whether these two gamers should also face criminal charges.

Meanwhile, Kansas officials have been informed that the third gamer who actually made the phone call, 25-year-old Tyler Barriss, matches the voice on a fake 2015 bomb threat, and is already the subject of an open investigation by an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

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Re:You miss the point...

[hairyfeet]

Oh horseshit! They had more armor than fucking robocop, outnumbered the guy something like 20 to 1, he is a fat guy with nothing but a pair of shorts versus an entire fucking SWAT team and despite them having tasers and flashbangs and rubber bullets and riot shield and a dozen other NON LETHAL methods of taking someone down...their FIRST and only reaction is to shoot someone in the head? Really?

And lets us not forget these dumbfucks were told it was a hostage situation....who answers the door when there is a gunman holding hostages? it sure as fuck ain't the gunman, nope he forces one of the HOSTAGES to answer the door as a shield! So even if they 100% believed what they were told by the dispatch that means this braintrust SHOT THE HOSTAGE, again despite having armor and shields and all those non lethal methods...now are you REALLY buying their line of bullshit, really?

Those cops are killers, full stop. I wanna see a drug test on these cops, wouldn't be surprised if half of them are running on roid rage and just looking for a fight. In either case I don't give a shit if someone called and said Jigsaw was in that house holding hostages because there is NO way in hell you can spin this in any way, shape, or form to make their actions justified, none. They should be looking at murder two FULL STOP and anything else is nothing but a cover up.