Disaster Man killed by police after angry CoD gamer SWATs the wrong address - All over a $1.50 wager match

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An argument between two competitive Call of Duty players has lead to a man being killed by police in Kansas after authorities were incorrectly informed he was holding someone hostage.
It is being reported across the competitive CoD community that a $2 wager match on the evening of Thursday December 28th descended into two team mates arguing with each other after losing the match, and threatening each other to be swatted.

Swatting is a common high risk hoax that involves calling the police and advising there is a situation taking place at an address. The hoax is often one that authorities will take extremely seriously, sending heavily armored personnel to an address in order to deal with the situation. In this instance, it appears to have got an innocent man killed.
The two CoD players reportedly got into an argument over a small money loss on UMG’s wager platform online (view match) and threatened to swat each other, with one of the players sending the other incorrect details of an address nearby to a known swatter, who was reportedly responsible for the CWL Dallas bomb hoax evacuations.
A local news website in Kansas has reported that the Wichita police were responding to a homicide and hostage situation, and when a 28 year old man answered the door, the officer in attendance discharged his weapon. The man was taken to hospital but later pronounced dead.
CoD pro player Chris ‘Parasite’ Duarte shared this Tweet that explained the situation in more detail.

The two players reportedly involved, Miruhcle and Baperizer, have removed themselves from Twitter.
What will happen next is unclear, however with an innocent man gunned down because of a fake threat, the police are expected to investigate and prosecute those involved.

Local news report: https://archive.fo/xvxY8

Family identifies the man fatally shot by a Wichita police officer Thursday night as 28-year-old Andrew Thomas Finch.

Questions remain regarding the circumstances that led up to the heavy police response and the shooting at the home near McCormick and Seneca. Police Thursday night indicated further information would be available on Friday.

Eyewitness News has seen a Twitter exchange where users claim what happened at the southwest Wichita home was a "swatting incident."

"Swatting is where someone contacts police and makes up a false report in order to get a SWAT team to respond to another person's address.

At Thursday night's police briefing, Wichita Police Department Deputy Chief Troy Livingston was asked whether this was a "swatting" incident or a prank.

"We don't know, but obviously detectives will look into that angle," Livingston said.

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Update: Wichita police say one man is dead after a Wichita Police Department officer shot him on a call Thursday evening at a home near McCormick and Seneca in southwest Wichita.

The 28-year-old man died from his injuries at a local hospital, WPD Deputy Chief Troy Livingston says.

Livingston says the case began about 6:18 p.m. when officers responded to a report that a man had shot and killed his father in an argument and was holding his family hostage.

On the call, Livingston says police prepared for a hostage situation and an officer shot the 28-year-old when he came to the door.

The man was taken to a local hospital where he died, Livingston says.

Police say the man shot by an officer was the only person injured at the home. The reports of a father being fatally shot prior to police arrival proved false.

Livingston did not say if the 28-year-old man had a gun. He says the officer who shot the man is a seven-year veteran with the Wichita Police Department.

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Two people are critically injured in a shooting in west Wichita.

It happened a little before 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of West McCormick, near McCormick and Seneca.

Police have traffic blocked near the scene and people are asked to avoid the area of McCormick and Seneca.

We have a crew near the scene to gather further information once it's available.

 

[Unpleasant]

They turned CoD into Rainbow Six.

 

[Dilligaff]

I'm slightly surprised it didn't happen sooner.

 

[Ruin]

You could have just made the title "autistic gamer kills opponent via swatting" and I'd still immediately know it was a COD player.

 

[Null]

They turned CoD into Rainbow Six.

 

[chadmuska]

Why would you shoot someone for opening the door though

did you not watch surviving edged weapons? for all we know he had a key with a hidden knife in it!!

 

[The Janitor]

F



In all seriousness, good job Wichita cops.

 

[Raiken]

Like said before, it suprisrs me that it did not happen sooner.
People who play milatary shooters should be registerd.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

Wait so if I'm understanding this correctly the guy who died also SWATed people? In that case, he probably got hit by Karmic justice.

It was bad dox so the wrong guy got swatted.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I knew that you have to be dumb to treat CoD seriously, but this situation is awe-inspiringly retarded.

 

[break these cuffs]

The thing is: He has noone else to blame but himself for shooting some random guy.


Which doesn't even really change anything, really. For all he knew, it might have been a hostage that opened the door. It's also a possibility that the person that called the cops was just overreacting to something mundane and/or misinterpreting whatever was going on in that house.

As @Cato said though: Unless there are some seriously huge mitigating factors, the cop is to blame.

Let's just wait to see what they might find out in their investigation. If the guy that was shot was carrying something weapon-like, it might be an explanation, but as far as I'm concerned, a good cop (especially a supposed veteran of 7 years) shouldn't just shoot up someone that has not shown any hostile intent.

If he just lit up a guy opening the door then the guy should get put through the ringer. Police in this country are way too militarized and poorly trained. What's clear is that the articles are garbage and I don't even know if the guy shot was in any way related related to the two faggots, how the cops got the wrong address, who was the one who called the false hostage situation in. I was trying to wait until something real got released before I started condemning the cop.

It was bad dox so the wrong guy got swatted.

A quote from the article article seems to say that whoever called in the address used the one a known person who swatted people instead of his intended victim. The whole incident is being poorly reported.

threatened to swat each other, with one of the players sending the other incorrect details of an address nearby to a known swatter

 

[Trash Eater]

There needs to be a hefty fucking sentence for swatting, even when it doesn't lead to someone being killed. The fact that the aptly named Swautistic openly parades the fact that he can send a firing squad of twitchy cops after someone under the pretense that they're armed and dangerous is pretty disgusting. Admitting to a potentially deadly misuse of the police should get you a few years of BBC, at least.

 

[QT 219]

I knew that you have to be dumb to treat CoD seriously, but this situation is awe-inspiringly exceptional.

Swatting is Darwinism at it's finest.

An asshurt CoD sped gives the wrong address to cops too stupid to follow protocol to deduce the nature of the situation and end up killing a guy too fucking dumb to follow directions.

 

[vertexwindi]

>live in murica
>open the door
>get shot

Fucking hell though. You'd think at least someone involved with this situation would use their brain.

 

[Apteryx Owenii]

While whoever called this shit in should be heavily charged and thrown in prison, I do have to wonder how any police department in the US hasn't, by this point, figured out the script of swatters. Yes, you still have to respond but everyone should be saying "okay, how do we handle this to avoid fucking some random guy up if this is bullshit- again"

A lot of it will come down to whether the officer "discharged" his gun for no reason- i.e. had his stupid finger on the trigger and just pulled it- or if there was subjective reason. Imagine if the homeowner heard something outside his door, saw some shadows, and opened the door with a gun or other weapon in his hand? Not an unreasonable response on his part but he's going to get lit up based on the phone call.

This whole situation reminds me a little of all the "youths" throwing shit off overpasses and killing people.

 

[BV 937]

This SWATing shit needs to stop. Hope the little prick gets charged.

 

[AFarewellToBlarms]

This is going to meander a bit, but bare with me.

When that whole "punch a Nazi" thing started making the rounds in the MSM, I was convinced it was some kind of high-level op, because it was preceded by shit like the pewdiepie smear that established that the definition of "Nazi" was highly mutable. The proximity of "go out and hurt people we call Nazis" and "Nazi means whatever we want it to mean" seemed purposely tailored to discredit the whole narrative.

Now, I'm not going to claim some sort of swatting conspiracy, but it seems odd to me that the general public response is that the practice itself is despicable, and not that American police can be so easily manipulated into being an on-call hit-squad.

Like, you would assume that swattings resulting in death would key the public into the notion that our police are poorly trained and overly violent, but just like the punch-a-nazi campaign, everyone seems to have missed the point.

 

[ThePlagueTND]

Geez. You gotta love how there was no escalation, that swatting option came out a little too quickly. I guess cause they're such serious gamerz.

I'm actually quite surprised this doesn't happen more often.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Call of Duty has one of the worst fanbases in all of video gaming, and this honesty does not surprise me.

Swatting is dumb and should carry heftier penalties.

 

[Sho'nuff]

If he just lit up a guy opening the door then the guy should get put through the ringer. Police in this country are way too militarized and poorly trained. What's clear is that the articles are garbage and I don't even know if the guy shot was in any way related related to the two faggots, how the cops got the wrong address, who was the one who called the false hostage situation in. I was trying to wait until something real got released before I started condemning the cop.

A quote from the article article seems to say that whoever called in the address used the one a known person who swatted people instead of his intended victim. The whole incident is being poorly reported.

From what I'm getting from both articles that seem to be written by Chris...

2 faggots play CoD, they have an argument over the last $2 in either of their bank accounts. They start talking shit to each other as faggots typically do, saying they are going to SWAT each other. Faggot number 1 gives Faggot number 2 "his address" which was fake, basically saying "do it, no balls." Faggot number 2 didn't have the balls but sent the address to a faggot intermediary named SWAuTistic (fucking gloriously ironic I tell you) who normally calls in fake bomb threats and SWATs people, hence his name.

Faggot intermediary calls in the SWAT, they go to the address that was originally supplied by Faggot number 1 in his "do it, no balls" post. Some guy gets killed by a police officer.

Until more details come out, I'm going to have to give benefit of the doubt to the police officer. They are responding to a murder/hostage situation, and it's quite possible that the person who opened the door had a weapon of some sort, it's Kansas. By the way the reports go, it says someone opened the door, it's possible this guy just opened the door to the noise and commotion he can hear outside of his home, surprising the officers and that's what got him shot.

Faggot number 2, and faggot intermediary are going to jail for life though. Hope they enjoy butt sex.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

The police fucking terrify me, knowing I could get killed out of an "honest mistake" due to negligence and nothing would come of it. Too many of these dipshits want to be a fucking superhero. That or the "if I'm the least bit afraid I'll shoot first and ask questions later." Shoot first and ask questions later, that's American policing for you.