The story was a jaw-dropping one.  Jeffrey Stenroos, a police officer with the Los Angeles Unified School District, saw someone breaking into cars in the parking lot of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills.  Officer Stenroos confronted the perp, only to be shot in the chest.  His bullet proof vest saved his life, and the shooting triggered an hours-long lockdown of the school and a massive manhunt.  There’s only one problem with that story.  It’s not true.  Officer Jeffrey Stenroos shot himself in the chest and made up a story about it, according to the LAPD.

“The Law enforcement community is disgusted upon learning that Mr. Stenroos filed a false police report and apparently may have shot himself.   His lies set into motion the largest search for a suspect in recent history and inconvenienced thousands of people for hours,” said Paul M. Weber, President of the Los Angeles Police Protective League.  “If these allegations are proven true, Mr. Stenroos is now where he belongs, behind bars.”

Why would he make up this story?  Well, he wanted to be a hero, for one.  That part is obvious.  Maybe he needed attention.  Still, when you have real people being shot at schools and people giving up their lives to protect students, it’s not cool to fake a shooting, if only because you just wasted several hours and several hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money on a massive search operation.

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