Mass. police say officer made up story about shooting that sparked a manhunt
On Wednesday, a part-time officer in Millis, Mass., said that a man in a pickup truck had shot at his cruiser. They exchanged fire. The cruiser crashed and caught on fire. Police from several towns, a Massachusetts State Police helicopter and K9 units were all part of the massive hunt for the suspect.
But it turns out there is no suspect, Millis Police said Thursday. The part-time officer allegedly made the whole story up.
After several interviews with the part-time officer, “and as a result of all other evidence, we have determined that the officer’s story was fabricated, specifically that he fired shots at his own cruiser as part of a plan to concoct a story that he was fired upon,” reads a Millis Police Department statement. “The evidence indicates that the shots were not fired by a suspect and there is no gunman at-large in or around the town.”
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