( CNN ) -- The story of a biblical miracle that saved a man 's life from blazing bullets has turned out to be a myth , police in Ohio said . The account by a public transit bus driver who said a devotional Bible carried in his chest pocket stopped two shots fired at his heart is n't true , said Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl on Wednesday . `` Based on the evidence , this crime did not occur as reported , '' he told CNN affiliate WDTN . The incident took place in February . On Wednesday , the driver , Rickey Wagoner , stuck by his narrative . `` I did n't make this up in any way , shape or form , '' Wagoner said . `` And because things happen that they ca n't explain , they think that I am lying . They 're not offering any proof that I am lying . '' Gang initiation ? Wagoner said that three young men assailed him possibly as part of a gang initiation in February . At the time , he said he heard one of them tell another to `` kill the polar bear '' in order to be `` all the way in the club . '' ( Wagoner is white . The attackers , he said , were black . ) Police Chief Biehl cast a wrench into that part of the story on Wednesday , doubting the attack even happened . `` We do not have three armed male offenders stalking members of our community and assaulting them without provocation , '' he said . Casting doubts . Wagoner said he sprang into action , pulling an aluminum pen from his pocket and stabbing one of the teenage boys in the leg . The suspects dropped the gun and fled . Wagoner said he picked it up and fired after them . Whatever transpired , he came away from it with a bullet wound to the leg and a slashed arm , which were treated at a local hospital . Police did n't say in February what condition the Bible was in , but they believed Wagoner 's miracle story back then . They said that without some kind of intervention , he would n't have survived . But after months of examining DNA evidence and doing ballistics tests on the gun , police say they have demystified the story . Biehl said that Wagoner may lose his job with the public transit authority , which also accuses him of making the story up . CNN 's Dave Alsup and Julia Lull .
A Dayton public transit bus driver said a Bible in his pocket stopped bullets . Police believed his story in February , saying 'intervention ' saved his life . After reviewing DNA and ballistics evidence , they demystified the miracle story . But bus driver Rickey Wagoner says he did n't lie .