Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by daxorid on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:28PM (#17148088)

I'm trying to understand how Gaskill is being charged, here.

He gave a different address to avoid being swatted himself. It is now "conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice" to exercise one's instinct of self-preservation?

Can someone with a better handle of the law than myself explain how Gaskill's actions are unlawful?

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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by mahart on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:07PM (#17148417)

He instructed other people to delete tweets/messages after learning someone died to cover up what happened. That seems like obstruction and conspiracy to me.

I think it is a stretch to call tweeting a wrong address "wire fraud" though.

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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by loeg on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:46PM (#17149183)

I think his main crimes are conspiring(1) to delete evidence(2) (obstruction). I'm not sure what "wire fraud" is for — maybe just by virtue of (1) and (2) being done online instead of by phone, letter, or in person.

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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by dresstotheleft on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:54PM (#17148313)

Sounds like he knew the address he gave was going to be swatted and intentionally gave a valid address of someone else. A rational person would have just not answered the question.

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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by loeg on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:47PM (#17149194)

That's not what he was charged with, AFAICT. That would be manslaughter or something along those lines, right? I think he's getting charged entirely for the cover-up.

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