Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison
by mulmen on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:47PM
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Do you have a source on the gun in hand thing? That isn't mentioned in the linked article. The only information provided in this case is that he stepped out to investigate and then had trouble with a fence. Presumably if he had a gun he dropped it at some point between walking outside and crawling under the fence in an attempt to comply with police.
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Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison
by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:49PM
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There was another article posted on HN yesterday with more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27900825
> "He went out the house with a gun, because he heard someone was on his property," Fitch explained. "He sees all these cops around him, and they ask if he is Mark Herring, 'put your hands up,' so he tosses the gun away from him to show he's not a threat, and [put his] hands up."
The police responded to reports of a violent crime in progress, confronted a man with a gun, and de-escalated the situation without any shots fired. There are a lot of bad assumptions in the comments on both articles assuming that the police shot the man, which isn't correct.