He left the apartment, supposedly to get some soda, and called the police with a false story about his lover, Garner, brandishing a gun.

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Prone to boasting and eager to impress, Hassoun even made what the defense describes as absurd claims he could make a gun out of two pieces of wood and a spring, and a bomb out of baking soda, Madden said.

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