His police vehicle had also been shot by three bullets.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Gill told authorities at the time that he had fired back at the car as it sped away.
He was on a routine patrol along a rural mountain road in the foothills of unincorporated Morgan Hill, California, at the time.
Gill was placed on leave following the incident.
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen did not specify what parts of Gill’s story were fake but said ballistics and other evidence revealed inconsistencies.
Gill was not wounded in the shooting while the single bullet pierced his body camera.
California deputy charged with faking ‘shocking ambush’ KATE FELDMAN
A California sheriff’s deputy who said he was shot last year staged the entire incident, prosecutors alleged.
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sukhdeep Gill, 27, reported in January 2020 that he had been shot “from a passing car as he stood on a dark rural road near Morgan Hill,” according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
Responding officers found no serious injuries on Gill and reported that he appeared to have only been hit once “and in a miraculous spot – his body-worn camera, which was destroyed.”
The deputy told the first officer at the scene that he had stopped on the dirt shoulder to urinate. As he walked back to his patrol car, the passenger in a silver sedan with no lights fired at him, he claimed.