The handgun used by a former Lakers player to fire warning shots during an attempted home invasion in Sherman Oaks last week as a ghost gun, the Los Angeles Police Department told NBC4 Investigates exclusively Friday.
Christian Wood was staying at an Airbnb on Otsego Street last week when a group of people tried to break into a house by smashing the back door window in the middle of an afternoon, the police had said last week.
After Wood fired three or four rounds at the ground, the suspects ran away in a getaway car.
Wood claimed the gun was not his, and that he found it in the two-story rental home, according to the LAPD.
As an investigation into the origin of the handgun and the attempted burglary continues, police will run ballistics on the gun and conduct DNA testing.
No one was arrested as of Friday.
The LAPD expects to present the case to prosecutors once the investigation is complete.
NBC Los Angeles reached out to Wood’s representatives.