"Swatting" is when someone calls the police, reports a kidnapping or something like that at their victim's house and then the SWAT team pulls up there in a tank and kicks in the door. Now, in Kansas, a 28-year-old man was named after a Prank call of a swatter shot dead by the police. May not be the first "trolling with fatal consequences", but probably one of the most symbolic. The alleged perpetrator, a 25-year-old guy from Los Angeles, was arrested. A very disgusting story.
This particular swatting reportedly originated over a $ 1.50 wagered match in the online game Call of Duty. Compounding the tragedy is that the man killed was an innocent party who had no part in the dispute. [...]
It appears that the dispute and subsequent taunting originated on Twitter. One of the parties to that dispute - allegedly using the Twitter handle “SWauTistic” - threatened to swat another user who goes by the nickname “7aLeNT“. @ 7aLeNT dared someone to swat him, but then tweeted an address that was not his own. [...] A story in the Wichita Eagle says officers responded to the 1000 block of McCormick and got into position, preparing for a hostage situation. “A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. "As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon." [...]
Not long after that, Swautistic was back on Twitter saying he could see on television that the police had fallen for his swatting attack. When it became apparent that a man had been killed as a result of the swatting, Swautistic tweeted that he didn't get anyone killed because he didn't pull the trigger (see image above). Swautistic soon changed his Twitter handle to @ GoredTutor36, but KrebsOnSecurity managed to obtain several weeks' worth of tweets from Swautistic before his account was renamed. Those tweets indicate that Swautistic is a serial swatter - meaning he has claimed responsibility for a number of other recent false reports to the police.
Among the recent hoaxes he's taken credit for include a false report of a bomb threat at the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that disrupted a high-profile public meeting on the net neutrality debate. Swautistic also has claimed responsibility for a hoax bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the Dallas Convention Center, and another bomb threat at a high school in Panama City, Fla, among others. [...]
He said the thrill of it "comes from having to hide from police via net connections." Asked about the FCC incident, @ GoredTutor36 acknowledged it was his bomb threat. “Yep. Raped em, ”hey wrote. “Bomb threats are more fun and cooler than swats in my opinion and I should have just stuck to that,” he wrote. "But I began making $ doing some swat requests."
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