Empire actor Jussie Smollett is now considered a suspect as investigators look into whether he filed a false report alleging he was attacked on the street in Chicago by two black-clad men spewing racist and homophobic slurs, police confirmed Wednesday People reports.
«Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by #ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report. Detectives are currently presenting evidence before a Cook County Grand Jury», police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote in a tweet.
Bare in mind that criminal investigation has not completed and police needs prove what they are claiming too.
Case Update: Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by #ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report (Class 4 felony). Detectives are currently presenting evidence before a Cook County Grand Jury. pic.twitter.com/FhDcbBKsuU
— Anthony Guglielmi (@AJGuglielmi) February 20, 2019
Photo by Dominick D [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
