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People do realize that it was a random address, not any of the call of duty players addresses'.

A random person was killed over this stupidity.

This is so enraging it's not even funny.

To clarify, the arrested individual sells a swatting "service" [1]. One of the CoD players hired him to swat the other over a twitter argument. The other CoD player taunted the swatter and gave him a random address [2]. The police showed up at the address and killed an unrelated person.

No parties involved are without blame.

[1] http://archive.is/Ixezf#selection-6279.0-6288.0 [2] https://i.imgur.com/n3Q53nL.png

for $10 and $20!

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