One guy was banned from playing video games by the court for swatting

A US court has imposed a 15-month sentence on Casey Viner, who indirectly participated in the tragic 2017 swatting.

The case of the tragic swatting that arose from an altercation over a match in Call of Duty: WW2 is still pending. The main culprit for the tragic event, the guy who sent special police to someone else's door, has already received a 20-year sentence, but the story is a little more complicated.

Namely, the convicted Tyler Bariss was merely the executor of the call, ie the one who sent the police to the doorstep where Andrew Finch was accidentally shot. The dispute actually arose between then-18-year-old Casey Viner and 20-year-old Shane Gaskill. Gaskill challenged Viner to swatting and gave him his old address, and Viner then forwarded that address to Barissa, who then falsely reported to the police that an armed attack was taking place there.

Viner and Gaskill testified in court that they did not feel guilty, but the sentence still came for one of them. Viner has now received 15 months in prison, but also a ban on playing video games for two years after he leaves prison. Gaskill is still on trial, but it is likely that the charges against him will be dropped.

Although it has been announced that an indictment will also be filed against the police officer who killed Andrew Finch, that will not happen.