No Foul Play in Death of Former Millis Cop: Report

Foul play has been ruled out in the death of former Millis Police officer Bryan Johnson, WCVB reports citing an autopsy conducted by the state medical examiner’s office. Johnson, 24, was indicted on charges in connection with staging a shootout and threatening to bomb a school before he was found dead in his home on Thanksgiving Day.

A spokesman for the Norfolk District Attorney’s office told WCVB the death was never investigated as a homicide but did not give a cause of death.

Police responded to Johnson’s residence around 3:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The former officer allegedly phoned in a bomb threat to Millis High School on the same day he reportedly fabricated a shootout with a non-existent suspect, and shot his own police cruiser before crashing it off Forest Road in Millis, where it then caught fire.

Johnson had been charged with willful communication of a bomb threat to a school in addition to the initial charges of misleading a criminal investigation, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, making a false police report, willful and malicious destruction of property above $250 and wanton destruction of property above $250. He was indicted Nov. 19.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was not initially charged for making the bomb threat, the charge was brought against him after further investigation.