UT student admits to lying in reported West Campus stabbing

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Police say a 20-year-old University of Texas student lied about being stabbed in West Campus on Monday, once he realized how expensive his medical bill would be.
Austin Chief of Police Brian Manley says the man admitted to fabricating the stabbing at Nueces Street and 26th Street, which the student tried to link to a deadly stabbing on the UT campus around an hour earlier.
The unidentified student was “playing with a knife and he accidentally cut himself,&rd