When Jabar Frazier arrived at North Fulton Hospital last week, he told police he had been shot during an iPad deal gone wrong in Alpharetta.
However, police said, they soon realized the story was a lie. Now, they have issued arrest warrants for Frazier and two people who accompanied him to the hospital, said George Gordon, an Alpharetta police spokesman.
The investigation began after Frazier arrived with a gunshot wound at the hospital June 4. Police did not give details of the man's injury, but it apparently was minor; the man was treated and released.
But Frazier's story of having gone to an Alpharetta park to meet someone selling an iPad, only to end up being shot by that person, did not hold up, police said.
There was no evidence of gunfire in Frazier's car, where the shooting supposedly took place, and other people at the park did not recall hearing shots at the time of the incident, police said.
When detectives confronted Frazier, he allegedly admitted that he accidentally shot himself in another, undisclosed metro Atlanta county.
Roderick Berry and Evia Westby had arrived with Frazier at the hospital and had corroborated his story, police said. Investigators got a search warrant for the rental car they were driving and found a stolen handgun and nine ounces of marijuana, Gordon said.
Police, meanwhile, did not have cause to hold the three, and when they finished their investigation and went to arrest them, they were gone.
Gordon said all three suspects are charged with filing a false police report and felony drug and weapons charges. He asked anyone with information about the case should call 678-297-6300.
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