Officials: Gunman at ASU was hoax
Student confesses that he made it up, they say
BOONE (Winston-Salem Journal) - A student who prompted Monday’s lockdown at Appalachian State University told police yesterday that he had made up the story of a gunman headed toward campus because he was afraid that he would get in trouble for a broken apartment door, authorities said.
Matthew Haney, 22, a senior from Raleigh, will be charged with filing a false police report, said Investigator Matt Stevens of the Boone Police Department.
Stevens said that Haney stuck to his story Monday night, even when police went back to talk to him as ASU went to heightened levels of response and police searched the area. But when police talked to him again yesterday morning, Haney admitted that there was no gunman.
BOONE (Winston-Salem Journal) - A student who prompted Monday’s lockdown at Appalachian State University told police yesterday that he had made up the story of a gunman headed toward campus because he was afraid that he would get in trouble for a broken apartment door, authorities said.
Matthew Haney, 22, a senior from Raleigh, will be charged with filing a false police report, said Investigator Matt Stevens of the Boone Police Department.
Stevens said that Haney stuck to his story Monday night, even when police went back to talk to him as ASU went to heightened levels of response and police searched the area. But when police talked to him again yesterday morning, Haney admitted that there was no gunman.
posted by BP News Bureau | 9:56 AM
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Did he break the door down or did someone else.
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