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Kansas 'swatting' suspect arrested in Los Angeles

A 25-year-old man was arrested in South Los Angeles on Friday night in connection with an alleged "swatting" prank that resulted in a police-involved fatal shooting in Kansas, police said.


Authorities identified the suspect as Tyler Barriss of Los Angeles, KABC-TV reported. They say Barriss is suspected of making a hoax phone call to police in Wichita, Kan., that resulted in the death of an innocent 28-year-old man.

Wichita police officials were investigating whether the hoax phone call they received Thursday was an example of “swatting,” in which someone reports a false emergency in hopes of getting a SWAT team to arrive at a scene where no actual emergency exists.

On Thursday, just such a call resulted in police fatally shooting Andrew Finch, whom police believed was involved in a hostage situation.

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Here is the 911 call that lead to the deadly swatting in Kansas. http://www.kansas.com/latest-news/article192242919.html …
5:57 PM - Dec 29, 2017

Police release the 911 call that led to the deadly 'swatting'
A 911 caller told police he was holding his mother and little brother hostage in at a house at the 1000 block of McCormick. Listen to the 911 call that led to the deadly 'swatting' in Wichita. (Video...
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Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston, who called the shooting a “tragic and senseless act,” said police were responding to a call from someone claiming his father had been shot in the head and that he was holding his mother and a sibling at gunpoint.

The caller added that he poured gasoline inside the home and "might just set it on fire."

Finch was shot in the chest by an officer who believed Finch was reaching for a weapon in his waistband, police said. He was taken to a hospital where he later died of his injuries.

The deputy police chief said Finch was not armed.

In October 2015, a suspect also named Tyler Barriss was arrested in Glendale, Calif.,connection with calling in a bomb threat to KABC-TV, the station reported.

Fox News' Nicole Darrah and the Associated Press contributed to this report.