Crime & Safety

Police: Man Hallucinates Someone With a Gun Chasing Him, Calls 911

Inside the Police Reports: The man told Norcross Police that he was at the Waffle House off Goshen Springs Road when someone came up to him and pulled a pistol on him.

Police believe a man called authorities to falsely report that someone started chasing him around with a gun while he was dining at a local Waffle House last week.

According to the Norcross Police report, the 47-year-old met with an officer outside a Chevron gas station off Jimmy Carter Boulevard.

The officer noticed that he was sweating profusely, his eyes were wide and glazed, and he was chewing on the straw in his Waffle House cup.

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In between him grinding his teeth and twitching, the man explained that he and his wife were eating at the Waffle House on Goshen Springs Road. Another man followed him into the restaurant and pulled a pistol on him, so he ran out to the gas station to call police.

He couldn't tell police where the armed man went, what he was wearing or what he looked like. He had told Norcross dispatch that the man had dreadlocks and was wearing blue jeans, though.

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When police asked about going through surveillance footage, the man changed his story and said that the gun was only shown to him.

His wife stopped by shortly after and told police that he had taken a few pills of methadone, a drug commonly used to treat addiction to opiates such as heroin, according to WebMD. She was shocked when police asked her if a man had come into Waffle House and chased her husband out with a gun.

Even the Chevron employee said the man appeared to be on some type of drug. When he came into the store, he asked the clerk if he could use the phone because a guy was going to shoot him. He handed him the phone as the man asked if the plastic barrier was bullet proof. He tried to get behind the window, too.

The employee told police he never saw anyone chasing him.

The man was arrested on a warrant for falsely reporting a crime.

Inside the Police Reports runs regularly every week. The information is based solely on police incident reports provided on request. It does not indicate a conviction.

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