Crime & Safety

Cops: Man Shot In Foot Reported Fake Robbery

Police are still investigating how a Riverside man got shot in the foot.

A man with a gunshot wound to the foot told police he'd been a robbery victim, but later changed his tune, police said.

According to Southampton Town police, a 24-year-old Riverside man was arrested on  May 15 at 2:15 p.m. at police headquarters in Hampton Bays and charged with falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, a misdemeanor. 

According to the arrest report, the man reported he was the victim of a robbery, during which he was shot with a gun in the foot, but he then recanted his story.

Police said that he made the report while in the woods north of Donald Avenue in Riverside at 1:25 p.m.

A later Southampton Town police incident report said the victim was "still uncooperative in providing information concerning the particular details of the gunshot wound to his foot."   


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