Fucking Christ. This is two terrible stories wrapped up in one:

For the better part of a week, police and residents of a Redding, California neighborhood were on the lookout for an armed and dangerous, and possibly unshaven, black man who had allegedly shot Brent Posada in the stomach during a struggle over a handgun. Then, police quizzed Posada about his report on the wound that sent him to the hospital, and discovered that there was no menacing black man, only Posada shooting himself with a high-powered air rifle.

The report says Posada "intentionally shot himself." What that means, I do not know. But I do know that these kinds of false reports do real damage to real people.