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Police investigate if video game prank led to shooting death
By H. HOLLINGSWORTH Wichita police investigate a call of a possible hostage situation near the corner of McCormick granddaughter was forced
JIM SALTER to step over her dying un-
Associated Press and Seneca in Wichita, Ks Thursday night 12/28. A man was fatally shot by a police officer in what cle and that no guns were
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) found in the home.
— Police and the FBI are is believed to be a gaming prank called “swatting.” “What gives the cops the
investigating whether an right to open fire?” she
argument over an online (Fernando Salazar /The Wichita Eagle via AP) asked. “That cop murdered
game prompted a prank my son over a false report
call that led to a house caused the officer to shoot tournaments including one some using caller ID spoof- in the first place.”
where an officer shot and Livingston says police are
killed a Kansas man who the man. involving “Call of Duty.” ing to disguise their num- investigating whether the
apparently wasn’t involved call that led to the shooting
in the dispute. But Livingston told report- “We woke this morning to ber. An FBI supervisor in was a prank
Police and industry officials The officer who fired the
say the death Thursday in ers at the scene that police horrible news about an in- Kansas City, Missouri, which shot — a seven-year vet-
Wichita, Kansas, may have eran of the police depart-
been the result of a prac- were called to the home nocent man losing his life,” covers all of Kansas, said ment — will be placed on
tice called “swatting,” in administrative paid leave,
which a person makes up a after being “given some Shannon Gerritzen, a UMG the agency joined in the which is department policy.
false report to get a SWAT In other cases of apparent
team to descend on an misinformation.” Police vice president, said in an investigation at the request swatting, three families in
address. Florida in January had to
Wichita Deputy Police were expected to provide email to The Associated of local police. evacuate their homes after
Chief Troy Livingston said a detective received an
an officer responded to more details at a late-after- Press. “Our hearts go out to Lisa Finch told the news- anonymous email claiming
a report that a father had bombs had been placed
been shot in the head and noon news conference. his loved ones. paper that her son was at the address.
that a shooter was holding A 20-year-old Maryland
his mother, brother and sis- Dexerto, an online news We are doing everything murdered by police. She man was shot in the face
ter hostage, The Wichita with rubber bullets by po-
Eagle reported. service focused on gam- we can to assist the au- said he went to the door lice in 2015 after a fake hos-
When police arrived at the tage situation was reported
house, a 28-year-old man ing, reported that the se- thorities in this matter.” She after hearing something, at his home.
who came to the front door Rep. Katherine Clark, a
was shot and died, Livings- ries of events began with declined to disclose other then screamed and was Massachusetts Democrat,
ton said. The man hasn’t introduced an anti-swat-
been identified by po- an online argument over a details. shot. She said the family ting bill in 2015 — then was
lice, but Lisa Finch told the herself the victim of swat-
newspaper that the victim $1 or $2 wager in a “Call of The FBI estimates that was forced outside bare- ting. Armed officers in 2016
was her son, Andrew Finch. responded to an anony-
She said he was unarmed Duty” game on UMG Gam- roughly 400 cases of swat- foot in freezing cold and mous call claiming an ac-
and was not a gamer. tive shooter was at Clark’s
Livingston didn’t say what ing, which operates online ting occur annually, with handcuffed. She said her home.q
Texas woman accused in fatal shooting of 7-year-old child
MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — The passenger is the child’s 45 miles (72 kilometers) east said they had been con- struck a police cruiser while
A Texas woman is facing father but Craig is not the of Frisco, were summoned tacted by Greenville police attempting to back up.
a capital murder charge child’s mother, said Child to a home on a call about early Friday morning about Jail records show that by
in the fatal shooting of a Protective Services spokes- a disturbance. At the same the capital murder war- Friday afternoon, Craig
7-year-old child. woman Marissa Gonzales. time, they were told a rant for Craig. McKinney had been transferred from
McKinney police say She said that CPS has re- 7-year-old gunshot victim police then located her Collin County back to Hunt
Brooke Craig, 26, was ar- ceived a report about the had been taken to Green- vehicle leaving a store and County, where Greenville
rested early Friday on a death and will investigate. ville’s Hunt Regional Medi- she fled into nearby Frisco is located. Jail records did
dead-end street in Frisco, a She also said that two sib- cal Center. The child died through several residential not list an attorney in re-
Dallas suburb, after leading lings — a 4-year-old boy soon after. Police have not areas before turning down lation to the capital mur-
police on a car chase. Po- and a 7-year-old girl — are released the name of the the dead-end street. Police der charge. According to
lice say her passenger was in CPS custody. On Thurs- child killed, nor the relation- say she and her passen- jail records, she faces a
arrested for a parole viola- day afternoon, police in ship between Craig and ger were arrested without charge in Collin County of
tion. Greenville, located about the child. McKinney police incident after their vehicle evading arrest. q
