A Chicago man admitted making at least 10 calls to emergency dispatchers to falsely report shootings of police officers so he could watch the frantic law enforcement response, prosecutors said.
Terreance M. King, 22, also made at least one bomb threat before investigators tracked the calls to an area near his South Side residence, the Chicago Tribune reports, citing prosecutors at King’s bail hearing on Sunday.
King, who was arrested Friday, is suspected of using aliases like “Antoine” and “Whodie” during the bogus calls. After one such alleged ruse, King watched responding officers race to the scene where he had just reported that a Chicago cop had been shot in the chest, the newspaper reports.
A judge ordered King to submit to electronic home monitoring if he’s released on $25,000 bond in connection to a felony count of making a false police report.
Prosecutors said King used his own cellphone to make the false reports to Chicago’s emergency dispatch center, WMAQ reports.
A public defender who represented King during his initial court hearing said he was enrolled in Job Corps, a federal program that offers education and job training to teens and young adults.
King is set to return to court on Friday, online jail records show.



