A terrified town hunkered down while police conducted a manhunt for a gunman who fired on a 24-year-old cop this past Wednesday, causing him to crash his car into a tree. “My cruiser’s been shot at. I’m at Forest Road. It’s going to be a dark maroon pickup,” he said to dispatchers, using his resources as a cop to find the suspect. The hunt involved a SWAT team, K-9 units, and the police force. While in pursuit, the whole town was on lockdown, including the schools that had just come back in session that week. But yesterday, that cop, Bryan Johnson, admitted that he made the whole story up after he kept changing the details about what happened.
There was no gunman; Johnson crashed his car for unknown reasons and tried to cover up the accident by firing shots from his own gun into the windshield. He had claimed that “he spun around, and in an attempt to avoid the gunfire and seek shelter, he slammed into a tree and the cruiser burst into flames.” Apparently, Johnson was a part-time rookie who was set to go to the academy and begin a full-time job on the force. But that won’t be happening anymore, for obvious reasons.
“I know there is something wrong. He was a good police officer, he was a good person, he was a good dispatcher. He was a person I thought would’ve been an excellent police officer,” said [Millis Police Sgt. William] Dwyer. “Something did go wrong and probably in later days we will know exactly what that is.”
According to WCBV, Johnson is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation while in the hospital.
Source: WCBV