Active shooter reports recently hit the University of Tennessee, Villanova University, the University of South Carolina, and ...

Tyler Barriss, the serial swatter whose hoax phone call led to the death of Wichita resident Andrew Finch in 2017, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the killing. On December ...

At many levels across America, such hoaxes have been plaguing the nation for years, including at schools, grocery stores, ...

"Swatting" and other hoaxes have risen since 2011, especially at the nation's schools. Villanova's Aug. 21 active shooter ...

Man gets 20 years for deadly “swatting” hoax Tyler Barriss has shown little remorse for the death of Andrew Finch.

Also, police in Calgary, Canada have linked him to a call made in that city on Dec. 22, 2017. However, Barriss is not named as a defendant in the Finch family's civil lawsuit.

Just last week, a Los Angeles man, Tyler Barriss, 26, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for making a prank phone call to police in Wichita, Kansas, that ended in officers going to a ...

The Los Angeles County district attorney filed a fugitive-from-justice warrant Wednesday against Tyler Barriss By Staff Report •Published January 3, 2018•Updated on January 3, 2018 at 7:56 pm ...

Tyler Barriss, 25, was arrested Friday on suspicion of making a hoax phone call to police in Wichita, Kansas. Authorities in Wichita said someone made a prank call to 911 with a made-up story ...