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Brendan I. Koerner
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Yesterday, federal prosecutors unsealed indictments against three associates of Tyler Barriss, the notorious swatter whose story I told for @WIRED. The defendants are alleged to have conspired with Barriss to carry out numerous swattings and bomb threats. justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/t…
The indictments highlight just how casual the defendants were about terrorizing total strangers, and how little they feared getting caught despite using unsecured communications tools (e.g. Twitter DMs).
Yesterday was also the funeral for Adelina Finch, the 18-year-old niece of the Wichita man who was killed in a December 2017 swatting that Tyler Barriss instigated. Amid the haze of trauma and grief, Adelina took her own life. May she rest in peace. legacy.com/obituaries/kan…
And, please, always know that there are people who care about you—more people than you likely realize. And they want to help.
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Brendan I. Koerner
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I have some profoundly tragic news to report, related to the story I wrote about the death of Andrew Finch. (1/x) wired.com/story/swatting…
Andrew’s sister, Adrianne, died in a car accident in 2002. She left behind two young children, Francis and Adelina. Though just a teenager at the time, Andrew helped raise his niece and nephew; he was their father figure.
On December 28, 2017, Andrew was killed by a Wichita police officer while standing in the doorway of his own home. The cops had been tricked into thinking there was a hostage crisis taking place at the address. Andrew was unarmed and completely innocent.
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Tyler Barriss, the instigator of the swatting that led to the death of Andrew Finch, is scheduled to plead guilty to an array of federal charges today. (1/x) kansas.com/news/nation-wo…
Though he will appear in federal court in Wichita, where Finch was killed, Barriss will be pleading guilty to charges from the Central District of California and the District of Columbia, too. The California case is the most sprawling. wired.com/story/feds-hit…
Given the severity of sentences in the federal system, there's a chance the state of Kansas will drop its involuntary manslaughter case against Barriss--a first-of-its-kind case that is by no means a legal slam dunk (since Barriss was 1,400 miles away when Finch was killed.)
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Tyler Barriss, the swatter whose exploits I detailed in the November issue of @WIRED, just got hit with a vast new array of federal charges--this time in the Central District of California. wired.com/story/feds-hit…
The seven oldest charges date back to the fall of 2015. They all involve bomb threats made to high schools and colleges that Barriss' online "Halo" friends attended.
In some of his later bomb threats, made while he was living in a Los Angeles homeless shelter, Barriss allegedly claimed to be a member of ISIS.
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