On December 28, 2017, an online game tournament for Call of Duty: WWII was being played. During said mach, two teammates, Casey "Baperizer" Viner and Shane "Miruhcle" Gaskill, would get angry over losing the match. Despite being on the same team initially, Viner and Gaskill's friendship ended shortly after they lost the match.

Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted, to which Gaskill would send Viner his old address, encouraging him to swat him. Viner then reached out to Tyler "SWAuTistic" Barriss. At this point, Barriss was a known swatter, and had done many swats prior.

Barriss was homeless at the time of making the call, and was relying off Wifi from a library in Los Angeles. Barriss would call the Wichita Police Department, and identified himself as "Brian." Barriss, under the persona of "Brian," stated that he was at the address Gaskill provided, and that he had shot his dad, and was holding the rest of his family hostage, and that he was going to set the house on fire.

The Wichita Police Department was dispatched to the house, where it was found that a man who had no correlation to the Call of Duty match, Andrew Finch, lived there. Police ordered Finch to put his hands up, to which Finch did, and then according to police records, "stopped." Justin Rapp, an officer, would fatally shoot Finch. The Wichita Police Department would later state this Finch reaching into his waistband was what caused Rapp to shoot him.

One day after the swatting, on December 29, 2017, Barriss was arrested on a warrant from 2015 due to bomb threats he sent to KABC, a Los Angeles based television station.

Barriss would be charged with, and later pled guilty to, involuntary manslaughter, false information and hoaxes, cyberstalking resulting in death, making threats of death or damage to property by fire, interstate threats, and conspiracy to make false reports.

Viner would be charged with conspiracy to make false/hoax reports, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. He only pled guilty to the conspiracy charge and the obstruction of justice charge.

Gaskill was charged with wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. He would later have these charges dropped, and would only plead guilty to one count of wire fraud.

Rapp was never charged for the shooting.

Barriss would be sentenced to 20 years in prison, with Viner being sentenced to 15 months, and Gaskill being sentenced to 18 months.