Newsrooms reported this week that the shooter in the 2011 Tucson, Ariz., massacre had brought a lawsuit against one of the survivors of his deadly rampage, former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords, but the story is reportedly a hoax.

The legal filing against the former congresswoman is likely the handiwork of notorious pro se trickster Jonathan Lee Riches, the same man who duped the press with phony lawsuits involving Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and Jacksonville Jaguars first-round pick Blake Bortles, according to popehat.com contributor Adam Steinbaugh.