LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Says Entire Shooting at El Camino High School Was Fake

[Newsjock]

Source: LA Weekly
Full original headline: Jeff Stenroos Lied, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Says: Entire Shooting at El Camino High School Was Fake, Manhunt Cancelled

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tonight accused LAUSD campus cop Jeff Stenroos of shooting himself near El Camino Real High School last week, creating a fake story about a gunman shooting him -- and setting off a massive manhunt, multi-school lockdown and shutdown of 7 square miles of the West San Fernando Valley.

... At a press conference shortly after 9 pm tonight, Beck announced what had been rumored among the media for two days: there is no "suspect" at large with a silver pony-tail, and Officer Stenroos is under arrest.

... Thousands of West Valley residents in Woodland Hills and West Hills could not get to their homes for hours as Beck ordered a massive perimeter and closed roads.

Seven public schools were locked down, and some children were forced to pee in special buckets of kitty litter kept in a closet for lockdowns. The threat of a wild-eyed gunman on the loose was considered so real that kids were not allowed to go to the bathrooms just down the hall.

Read more: http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/01/jeff_stenroos_lied_beck_says.php

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Update: LAUSD police officer admitted fabricating shooting story, source says
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/lausd-police-officer-admitted-fabricating-shooting-story-source-says.html

Authorities arrested Los Angeles school police Officer Jeff Stenroos on suspicion of filing a false police report after he allegedly admitted to fabricating a story that he had been shot last week in Woodland Hills, according to a senior LAPD official close to the investigation.

... The source added that Stenroos' protective vest showed obvious signs of having been struck by a bullet, and the officer also suffered bruising on his chest. Detectives later raised questions about whether the officer shot himself accidentally and then fabricated a story or concocted the whole scenario.

The source declined to say whether additional arrests would be made in the case.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Wonder what happened to that poor bastard in the shorts that they

cuffed & hauled off that day.

[TheWraith]

4. They probably interrogated him for hours, demanded he confess, scared the shit out of him...

...then grudgingly released him when it became obvious he hadn't done anything at all.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. He's probably still locked up because he couldn't make bail.

After they found some old stale want or warrant on his ass for skipping jury duty or a parking ticket.

[old mark]

2. Guns causing trouble again.....

;)


mark

[pnorman]

3. "some children were forced to pee in special buckets of kitty litter kept in a closet for lockdowns"

Keeerist! Is Kitty Litter standard issue at public schools these days? My own school dayz were spent largely in the depth of the Great Depression, but it seems that I led a sheltered life!

[TheWraith]

5. You would think they could secure the hall well enough to take kids to the bathroom.

I also would imagine those kids who had to pee in the closet are going to have some issues as a result of this.