An innocent man was shot dead by a police officer after a Call of Duty gamer pranked authorities into giving fake addresses of a 28-year-old father.

Andrew Finch, a 28-year-old father from Kansas was shot dead on Thursday by a police officer after a Call of Duty gamer called Swat team and tipped them about a bogus shooting incident

The call was part of a prank by a man identified as Tyler Raj Barriss going by the online handle “SWAuTistic” and known for “swatting,” a practice considered as cybercrime in which law enforcement authorities and emergency services are called to provide false information about the ongoing threatening situation such as bomb threat, murder, and abduction etc.

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