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California suspect held in hoax that led to police killing Kansas man

By Brendan O'Brien

 

Tyler Barriss appears in a 2015 booking photo provided by the Glendale Police Department December 30, 2017. Glendale Police Department/Handout via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - A 25-year-old man was in a Los Angeles jail on Saturday in connection with a prank call that resulted in the shooting death of an unarmed man by a Kansas police officer at a home where the caller said hostages were being held, authorities and media reports said.

 

The arrest of Tyler Barriss, reported by KABC-TV, followed the killing of a 28-year-old man as he stood at the front door to his Wichita home on Thursday evening.

 

Police shot the Kansas man minutes after arriving at the residence in response to the hoax call, said Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston, describing the shooting "as a tragic and senseless act."

 

Authorities described the case as an example of "swatting," in which a caller falsely reports an emergency that requires a police response, usually by Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT, teams.

 

A man named Tyler Barriss was being held without bond in the Los Angeles County jail system on Saturday, a county database showed. It listed no legal representation for him.

 

Police and jail officials did not immediately return calls seeking confirmation.

 

Wichita police on Friday released a recording of the 911 call in question. The voice of a man could be heard saying that his parents had been arguing.

 

"I shot him in the head, and he’s not breathing anymore,” the voice said.

 

The man then told the 911 operator that he was holding a handgun on his mother and little sister, had doused the house with gasoline and was thinking of torching it.

 

Wichita police officers surrounded a house on the city's west side, Livingston said.

 

"A 28-year-old male opened the front screen door and stood in the doorway or just outside that doorway," he said. "Officers gave him several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them."

 

A police officer shot once after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said.

Police found no one dead, injured or taken hostage inside the house, he said.

 

Family members told the Wichita Eagle newspaper that Andrew Finch, a father of two, was the man killed.

 

"The person who made the phone call took my nephew ... two kids’ father," Finch’s aunt, Lorrie Hernandez-Caballero, told the paper. "How does it feel to be a murderer? I can’t believe people do this on purpose."

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-31

[tonray]

Lock him up for 25 years and let him get 'swatted' by some big a@# cellmate every night. Have a good trip you little pr#$%,

[edwinchester]

"A police officer shot once after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said."

 

Yeah right. Now explained how the policeman saw a weapon when the guy was unarmed.

[Langsuan Man]

36 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

"A police officer shot once after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said."..........

 

Depends upon which account you read, Reuters quotes the police as above, yet LA Times quotes it differently:

 

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But Livingston said the man moved a hand toward the area of his waistband. An officer, fearing the man was reaching for a gun, fired a single shot.

source: http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-swatting-suspect-20171230-story.html

[boomerangutang]

From the little bit reported herein, it sounds like two me are guilty:  The prank caller, and the Kansas cop who was too quick to shoot.

[the guest]

3 minutes ago, boomerangutang said:

From the little bit reported herein, it sounds like two me are guilty:  The prank caller, and the Kansas cop who was too quick to shoot.

Cops in the US don't take any chances, and it's unlikely he will face prosecution.

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

A police officer shot once after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers,

Once again, testing the eyesight of 'peace' officers is called into question.

 

Once again, they will trot out the old "in fear of his life' defense.

[Ulic]

1 hour ago, the guest said:

Cops in the US don't take any chances, and it's unlikely he will face prosecution.

Not a chance the officer will be charged. It does not matter what the situation, if a police officer says he feared for his life he has nothing to fear regarding prosecution.

The prosecutor has to prove that the police officer did not fear for his life.  Whatever the officer says is accepted in regards to his state of mind. 

[ilostmypassword]

2 hours ago, Ulic said:

Not a chance the officer will be charged. It does not matter what the situation, if a police officer says he feared for his life he has nothing to fear regarding prosecution.

The prosecutor has to prove that the police officer did not fear for his life.  Whatever the officer says is accepted in regards to his state of mind. 

Is this legal doctrine or something you just made up? 

[dick dasterdly]

45 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Is this legal doctrine or something you just made up? 

You make a good point, so I'm interested to learn of cases where police officers served lengthy jail terms for shooting un-armed people.

[Scott]

A post containing disguised profanity has been removed.   It's still profanity.  

[boomerangutang]

The cop who was too quick on the draw - is a product of gun-loving US culture.

 

American kids in particular, but kids ww are brought up on a steady diet of gun-worship.  It's ingrained thru TV, movies, magazines, ad infinitum.  Some of those kids, when they grow up, maintain the indoctrination that 'the guy who shoots first is right.'  or 'bad guys always miss, and good guys always hit their target.'   In every movie with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Swarzenegger, Stallone, Bruce Willis, ....it's the same gun-worship theme.  

 

 

[Credo]

This was a serious situation of swatting.   The crank call indicated he had shot and killed(?) someone and had doused the house in gasoline.   The police arrived with that in mind.   Whether the guy was reaching for a gun or a lighter, it could have been a tragic situation.    

 

Gun happy?   Perhaps, but in what they had very good reason to believe was an extremely serious situation, their actions were unfortunately probably warranted.   

 

Sadly, the victim had no way of knowing what was going down, but there is a lesson to be learned.   Regardless of the situation, do exactly what the police tell you to do.   They do have guns and they will use them.   If you want to argue, do it with the judge.   

Edited December 31, 2017 by Credo

[mdmayes]

Swatting or not, the police officer had trigger finger and shot an unarmed man. If you point fingers it should be at the police.

[Trouble]

29 minutes ago, mdmayes said:

Swatting or not, the police officer had trigger finger and shot an unarmed man. If you point fingers it should be at the police.

Glad you were there to see what happened first hand. Yes an unarmed man, father of two is dead. You can bet the police officer who shot him isn't feeling happy about it.  He has to live with that for the rest of his life all because some scumbag placed that call setting up the disastrous scenario. If it was for the fact that every time a police officer stops a car for a traffic ticket, he has to worry about whether or not he might run into some a-hole that might be armed, cops might have a different attitude.  

[halloween]

1 hour ago, Trouble said:

Glad you were there to see what happened first hand. Yes an unarmed man, father of two is dead. You can bet the police officer who shot him isn't feeling happy about it.  He has to live with that for the rest of his life all because some scumbag placed that call setting up the disastrous scenario. If it was for the fact that every time a police officer stops a car for a traffic ticket, he has to worry about whether or not he might run into some a-hole that might be armed, cops might have a different attitude.  

I do hope you realise that in every other advanced civilisation (and I am being generous there) a policeman who shoots dead an unarmed citizen would have considerably more problems than feeling bad about it.

[Stargeezr]

I had a relative  who was a US cop and who was gun crazy owning a dozen,  and also was trigger happy. I wuld not live in the USA even if I was paid to do so.

Geezer 

[Stargeezr]

My other complaint is when these cops get to go to a court for their wrong doings including murder, it is in front of a judge only, No jury, so how is that a fair way of justice, especially when the majority get away with what ever they did..

Geezer

[Scott]

27 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

My other complaint is when these cops get to go to a court for their wrong doings including murder, it is in front of a judge only, No jury, so how is that a fair way of justice, especially when the majority get away with what ever they did..

Geezer

Not necessarily true.   I was recently following a trial of a police officer who shot someone and he was found not guilty by the jury.  

[lannarebirth]

On 12/30/2017 at 10:03 PM, ilostmypassword said:

Is this legal doctrine or something you just made up? 

It is department policy in almost all police agencies in the US. It is supposed to be a "reasonable" fear but almost all trigger happy cops are exonerated when they claim the "feared for their life". Departments are incentivized to exonerate officers to pre-empt civil lawsuits.

Edited January 2, 2018 by lannarebirth