The Latest: Police: Smollett suspected of lying about attack

Source: Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the attack reported by Jussie Smollett (all times local):

4:30 p.m.

A police official says “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett is now considered a suspect “for filing a false police report” and that detectives are presenting the case against him to a grand jury.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted the news on Wednesday after Smollett’s attorneys met with prosecutors and detectives.

Smollett told police he was attacked by two masked men while walking home from a Subway sandwich shop at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 29. He says they beat him, hurled racist and homophobic insults at him and looped a rope around his neck before fleeing.

Read more: https://apnews.com/0289f396dd7f4c98b1dc4d04d35f1c00?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter