The Kansas SWATting? The guy who ordered it got 15 months.

[thewayne]

The original argument was between Casey Viner, 18, of Ohio, and Shane Gaskill, 19, of Witchita. The dispute was over a $1.50 bet over a Call of Duty game. Ultimately Viner threatened Gaskill with a SWAT call, Gaskill provided an address that he used to live at. Viner called Tyler Barriss, notorious in the SWATting community for calling in such strikes, along with bomb threats and other nonsense.

Police responded to the call made by Barriss and a man died. Andrew Finch, 27, father of 2, was killed by a single shot by a police officer who was cleared of all wrongdoing by the local DA.

Barriss plead guilty and is serving 20 years in the federal pen.

Viner plead guilty to two charges, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, the latter charge from erasing evidence of his calls to Barris and such from his devices.

Gaskill has been placed on deferred prosecution as he wasn't primarily active in the death of Finch. As long as he keeps his nose clean, he'll eventually have the prosecution dropped.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/man-who-hired-deadly-swatting-gets-15-months/

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Comments

[dewline]

Fifteen months?

...ugh...

[thewayne]

Yeah, does seem kinda slim. The intent was a prank, the prank ended in a loss of life. He instigated the prank after an argument, pretty much making it a crime of passion. I don’t know what to make of it.

[dewline]

I also fear for the officers who were deceived into participating in this horror show.

[devilc]

Such fucking bullshit.

He should've gotten 15 years.

[dewline]

Agreed.

[thewayne]

I have no problems with Burriss getting 20 years. He’s clearly a sociopath who has no sense of right and wrong or social responsibility - he made prank calls from jail! This guy, I don’t know if this was a one-off event. He ordered a prank, a serious prank, and it turned deadly. He did not have the intent for it to turn deadly. Without having other background information on the guy, I don’t think I could go for more than 3-5 years. But 15 months: definitely too light. But assuming this is the Federal Court case: he’s going to have to serve all of that, and it’s possible Kansas is going to go after him upon release. I know there’s several jurisdictions drooling for when Burriss gets released because of all the shit that he’s done.

[silveradept]

That it was over stuck low stakes is the extra galling bit. Like, grow up, children, and when you can be civil to each other, then you can have your games back.

Ordering the police to someone, even as a prank, should carry significant jail time. Since there was someone who died from it, I'd be good with a very long sentence to impress upon someone the severity of what happened.

[thewayne]

Yeah, all over $1.50 bet.  Maturity is something that eluded all three of them.