Officer Made Up Story; Admits Shooting Himself

Juvenile Officer Had Said Bulletproof Vest Saved Life
LOUISVILLE -- A juvenile court officer in Louisville said he was shot by a black man Wednesday night, but now police say he was lying.

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Police said Thursday that Glenn Satterly (pictured, left), 40, actually shot himself.

Satterly gave a false report of the shooting incident, which occurred in a church parking lot on Greenwood Road in Pleasure Ridge Park, WLKY NewsChannel 32 reported. His bulletproof vest stopped the bullet.

A police spokesman said Satterly admitted to investigators that he shot himself. After the shooting he tried to get rid of the bullet lodged in his vest. The bullet was tested at the Kentucky State Police crime lab, where officials said it matched those in Satterly's gun, WLKY reported. When the officer was confronted about the evidence, Satterly reportedly admitted that he shot himself.

Satterly said in his report that he was shot after he told the man he didn't have any junior police badges to give out.

He was arrested and was jailed in the Jefferson County Corrections Center on charges of tampering with physical evidence, a felony, and filing a false police report, a misdemeanor.

Glenn Satterly , a juvenile court officer, told colleagues that he was parked in the lot of a church on Greenwood Road in Pleasure Ridge Park at about 10 p.m. Wednesday when he was shot.