Swatting Led to an Innocent Man’s Death in Kansas. Here’s What to Know About It

Authorities arrested a 25-year-old California man whose phony 911 led to the death of a father of two in Kansas.

Tyler Barriss was arrested Friday after allegedly calling a 911 dispatcher and posing as a Wichita, Kan., man claiming he had shot his father in the head and was holding the rest of his family in a closet at gunpoint, NPR reports. The police surrounded the Wichita address given by the caller, and fatally shot the 28-year-old dad, Andrew Finch, who emerged from the front door.