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After the incident, investigators from the police department's cyber forensics unit \"quickly\" identified Barriss, who allegedly had made contact with the victim earlier in the day.

The arrest warrant charges Barriss with public mischief, fraud and mischief, police said.

\"We take swatting events extremely seriously and will investigate each incident thoroughly,\" Calgary police said. \"Swatting calls have the potential to create significant risks for both public and officer safety and can require an extensive amount of resources to respond and investigate.\"

On Dec. 28, Barriss allegedly called police in Kansas, detailing an alleged shooting with hostages as a residence in Wichita. Authorities received a 911 call around 6:18 p.m. Central Time from a man who said he had shot his father in the head while his parents were arguing, police said.

The caller also said he was holding his other family members at gunpoint inside the home and was thinking about setting the house on fire, repeatedly giving authorities the address to a Wichita home, according to authorities.

Officers surrounded the front of the home when they arrived on the scene and prepared to make contact with the caller inside, police said. A 28-year-old man then opened the door to the home, obeyed an order to raise his hands for \"a very short time,\" before moving them back down to his waist.

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PHOTO: Wichita police investigate a call of a possible hostage situation near the corner of McCormick and Seneca in Wichita, Kan., on the night of Dec. 28, 2017.
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After the officers ordered the man to put his hands up again, he lowered them down again toward his waistband, and an officer fired one round, striking him, police said. His identity was not released.

The victim was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced dead. Police did not find any weapons on him and later learned that he did not place the 911 call, according to police.

Barriss was charged in Kansas on Dec. 29 for felony making a false alarm, according to a fugitive-from-justice warrant filed by prosecutors in Los Angeles County.

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Irfan Khan, Pool via AP
PHOTO: Tyler Barriss stands near public defender Mearl Lottman as he appears for an extradition hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court, Jan. 3, 2018, in Los Angeles.
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Last week, Barriss waived extradition proceedings in California, and Kansas authorities have until Feb. 2 to pick him up. He will be held in a Los Angeles County jail without bail until then.

Barriss had also made about 20 calls to universities and media outlets throughout the country in 2015, around the time he was arrested for a bomb threat to ABC Los Angeles station KABC, the Glendale Police Department in Los Angeles County told ABC News.

Barriss pleaded no contest to two felony charges of a false report of a bomb and malicious informing of a bomb in May 2016, in relation to the bomb threat made to KABC, court records show. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.

The FBI will be leading the most recent case since the swatting calls were made around the country. It estimates that about 400 cases of swatting occur nationwide every year, according to The Associated Press.

Barriss' attorney, Mearl Lottman, did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

ABC News' Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.

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