A 25-year-old man was arrested Friday in South Los Angeles for his suspected role in a “swatting” hoax incident
in Kansas that resulted in the fatal police shooting of a man. Tyler Barriss was arrested on a fugitive warrant related to the Thursday shooting in Wichita, said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez. Barriss is being held without bail, Lopez said. Barriss was also arrested
in 2015 on charges of making false bomb threats to the KABC-TV studio in Glendale.... |