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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by stickfigure on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:35PM (#16032799)
Prosecutors will get to describe the crime in any frame they choose, and a jury of humans will get to decide whether it's murder.

Assuming this player is in an extraditable country, I predict he's going to rot in jail for the rest of his life. It's not like he was playing CoD through TOR. He won't be hard to find.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by aseipp on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:46PM (#16033067)
People already have the gamer tags of the two people involved in the shooting (the swatter and the person he was intending to swat, but who gave a false address) and even have tweets from the alleged perpetrator (now deleted) who claimed he wasn't responsible.

So yes, it's a very short matter of time before police start knocking.

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