A fired Massachusetts police officer accused of a shooting hoax that put a Boston suburb in lockdown was found dead early on Thursday, CBS Boston reported.
The former officer, Bryan Johnson, 25, was pronounced dead in his home in Millis, a Boston suburb, CBS said, citing a statement from the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.
No signs of foul play were discovered and the death is not being treated as a homicide, the office said, according to CBS.
In a statement, Millis police said officers were called to the home for a medical emergency and found a man dead. They declined to identify him.
A grand jury indicted Johnson last week on six counts, including making a bomb threat to a school and misleading a criminal investigation.
Johnson, a part-time officer, was alleged to have called a dispatcher in September and saying a gunman had shot at his police cruiser.
Police swarmed into the town about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Boston and ordered schools locked down.
But forensic analysis showed the bullets that hit the squad car had come from Johnson’s service weapon. Johnson was fired.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
Read more at Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/26/us-massachusetts-police-idUSKBN0TF2GX20151126#DxFGpxGwdqhYgVHr.99
Fantastic news! One less gestapo thug walking the streets terrorizing the people.
“No signs of foul play were discovered and the death is not being treated as a homicide, the office said, according to CBS.”
That’s according to CBS, who has never told the truth about anything. If they do an autopsy they’ll find out that he killed himself with pills of one kind or another because he didn’t want to face all the people he illegally sent to prison.
sounds like a set up.
OUTSTANDING!!!
Best story of the day so far!
Maybe he wasn’t the only one participating in the hoax. Maybe he was just a small time player in a government sponsored “domestic terrorist attack” and he had to go, so he couldn’t talk.