another brainiac
Ohio bus driver lied about Bible stopping bullets during an attack, he shot and stabbed himself
June 19, 2014
By Anomaly
Police found it suspicious that Rickey Wagoner, a 320-pound, 49-year-old bus driver working for the Dayton, Ohio transit system, was not winded after fighting for his life and running from his three alleged hoodie-wearing black teenage attackers. The operator lied when he told cops he was attacked, shot, stabbed and robbed by three black teens in February, police said Wednesday.
The 49-year-old bus driver even told cops that two of the bullets struck a copy of “The Message,” a modern-day take on the New Testament, that the driver had stuffed into a chest pocket. It’s a miracle! No, it’s really not.
The police now believe that Wagoner staged the attack, shooting himself in the arm and placing the Bible-like book on the asphalt before firing two rounds into it.
Wagoner told the emergency dispatcher, “I’ve been hit in the leg. My chest feels like I’ve been hit with a sledgehammer.”
According to the Dayton Daily News, the stab wounds on his arms were not the defensive wounds expected of someone fighting off an attacker, cops said at a news conference Wednesday, but rather “hesitation wounds” inflicted by a person stabbing themselves.
The original story Wagoner told the police was that he’d been attacked around 5:20 a.m. on February 24 th by three black teens in hoodies, their faces covered by bandanas, after his trolley had an electrical problem and broke down.
He told police one teen told another during the alleged attack, “Shoot a polar bear … if you want to be all the way in the club.” A phrase which be believed to be a gang initiation.
Teens used “polar bear” as slang for white person, so that prompted the FBI to investigate the alleged attack as a hate crime.
Wagoner’s story of being saved by the Bible was quickly picked up by media outlets.
Further investigation revealed only Wagoner’s DNA and blood at the scene, despite his claim that he’d wrestled away the knife and stabbed one of his attackers. Police said a blue bandana found at the scene turned up only dog hairs. In the surveillance video from the bus, you can hear the sound of five different gunshots, but Wagoner said only three were fired.
The Daily News reports, “One is fired, then several seconds elapse before four shots in rapid succession are let off. A groaning and screaming Wagoner is heard on the surveillance tape, but cops said on the 911 call, the 320-pound man did not appear winded, despite his claims that he’d fought for his life and run some 200 or 300 feet on the dark Dayton street.”
On Wednesday, the city’s Regional Transit Authority began the process of firing Wagoner, a 10-year veteran driver with a sparkling |
