A former police officer from Massachusetts who was indicted after he fabricated a story about a shootout and calling in a fake bomb threat at a school in September was found dead on Thanksgiving.
The Norfolk district attorney’s office said in a statement that Bryan Johnson, 24, was pronounced dead early Thursday after being found in his Millis home.
Police were called to the home by another resident of the house who found him unresponsive around 3am, CBS News reported.
No signs of foul play were found at the scene and the death is not being investigated as a homicide.
On November 19, a Norfolk County grand jury issued six indictments against Johnson, including new charges stemming from a false bomb threat at Millis High School the same day he is alleged to have staged a shootout with a non-existent motorist.
The charges included willful communication of a bomb threat to a school, making a false police report, malicious destruction of property and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
At the time, he had pleaded not guilty and was free on bail. He faced more than 40 years in prison if convicted of the charges.
Last year, Johnson was promoted from a dispatcher to part-time officer.
He was scheduled to start training as a full-time officer for Millis, a town of about 8,000 residents on the Charles River.
