He approached her with what appeared to be a firearm. The woman fought him off. Turned out, it was a toy gun -- she thought it was a toy gun -- and they had a struggle in the street. He tried grabbing her. She screamed for help and a Harvard University employee came to her assistance, called police.

It was a strange turn of events. It could have been somebody else doing it for him.

There was something in his belt buckle ? a bullet or a fragment.

Someone threw a substance on the street that caught on fire.

Originally it looked like she had a fractured leg.

We're talking to anyone that worked with him -- family, friends, anyone that can help us out.

We evacuated neighbors for safety precautions for threats he was making.

He's been lying from the minute we started talking to him. Him leaving with the johnnie just added to the fact. We can't lock someone up for being shot.

His story started falling apart after we started talking to him. It was strange from the beginning.

Nobody was moving along. We're lucky we have Mace because it is a somewhat easy way to move a crowd along. As much as nobody wants to hear it, it's a part of police work.