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Following the Christchurch shootings, Tarrant told police there were nine other shooters, training centers  "like minded individuals" in other areas, he was a member of the Reborn Knight's Templar, and in contact with Breivik. Some of these claims made it onto the news, but they turned out to be untrue.
Breivik made similar claims after his attack, if I recall correctly, suggesting an organization when he actually acted alone.

That is correct,Breivik did make similar claims,and personally I think both of them made these false statements in order to waste police resources and keep them in a state of panic and confusion to cause as much chaos as possible.

When the Kerch Polytechnic Shooting happened, some thought that the bomb going off was the result of a gas leak.
Following Columbine, newspapers reported that Cassie Bernall was asked by Eric "Do you believe in God?" and when she said yes he killed her. He actually asked Valeen Schurr this and didn't kill her. People still believe this myth to this day and a song was even written about it (Cassie - Flyleaf).
After the Pulse Shooting, it was speculated that Omar Mateen was secretly gay and committed the attack as a way to let out his own frustration at being gay.

In one of the videos of the massacre of Suzano, recorder by a student, a male voice was heard shouting from outside, many believed that it was Luiz De Castro or Guilherme taucci This for the poor audio quality and mixed noise. In the end, the voice was from one of the first policemen who arrived on the scene shouting "The police have arrived." He himself said that he shouted this as soon as he arrived at the school.

Here's some false 4chan posts:
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2015 Västerås IKEA stabbing, rumors spread that the perpetrator was Somali and had been heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" after decapitating the victims.

Rumors circulated that Charles Whitman tried to sell a businessman possibly illegal pornography and that he dropped a piece of paper money before his crime stating his name and that he had killed his wife and mother. The first turned out to be a rumor, hoax, or misunderstanding, while the second turned out to be a hoax.

From Gary M. Lavergne's A Sniper in the Tower:
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dyonqqr wrote:

Here's some false 4chan posts:
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Lmao the second one is so obviously fake.What shooting is the first one referencing?

Employer_Square wrote:

Lmao the second one is so obviously fake.What shooting is the first one referencing?

It's referring to the 2009 Winnenden school shooting / Tim Kretschmer.

dyonqqr wrote:

Employer_Square wrote:

Lmao the second one is so obviously fake.What shooting is the first one referencing?

It's referring to the 2009 Winnenden school shooting / Tim Kretschmer.

Oh ok thanks.

Among the allegations leveled at Anders Brevik (or at least the ones he thought people put against him) were that he:
- was a pedophile
- was gay
- was a necrophiliac
- was a Zionist
- was a psychopath
- was mentally and physically retarded with an IQ of around eighty
- had bacteria phobia
- had a relationship with his mother
- was a child murderer / a baby murderer (he disagreed because he killed no one under 14)
- was a racist and a Nazi (which he disputed in his manifesto and in court, despite his salute)

Ian Chimenko (2008 Antietam Middle-Senior High School attack):
Immediately after the attack, rumors spread that:
- at least a half-dozen students were injured
- a gunshot was heard
- that the flammable liquids and backpack he had contained explosives

Many people believed that the final footage of the movie "Zero days" was an actual recording from the columbine library. Many videos of this specific scene were uploaded with titles like "Real Recording of the Columbine library cameras" etc ... mostly in Spanish.

Another rumor was that Eric and Dylan counted "1,2,3" or did a count before committing suicide.

That Lanza had body armor.

Here's some AOL profiles people claimed were related to Columbine but were not.
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After Columbine, it was reported that Eric Harris had asked Cassie Bernall "Do you believe in God?" and when she said yes he shot her. He actually asked Valeen Schurr this question and she survived.
Also that Eric and Dylan specifically targeted christians in the attack.

The 2016 Munich McDonalds Attack was rumoured to be tied to Islamic extremism, but this was proven false.

It was reported that Adam Lanza was supposedly infatuated with Taylor Swift

There was an supposed Yahoo! Answers profile of guilherme taucci which was believed to be authentic, until a friend of the owner of that account came out to deny it. He just had the same username and profile picture as guilherme. But many people believe it was his real profile.

The news reported Gabriel Ross parkers gun as a 9mm ruger, it was later found to be .22 caliber mark 2 handgun.

Bredoviscidose wrote:

The news reported Gabriel Ross parkers gun as a 9mm ruger, it was later found to be .22 caliber mark 2 handgun.

Actually, it's the opposite since the news still thinks that Gabe Parker used a .22 Ruger handgun just from an edit on Wikipedia as the source, even though so many recorded court hearings about the case and even a lawsuit say that the gun used was a 9mm Ruger handgun.

bruh

Sorry I will try to fact check next time and use reliable sources

A smaller example. but a grey Volvo was attacked when it entered Anders Breivik's trial because the crowd thought he was in it. He was actually in a Mercedes SUV. The Oslo bombing was also initially thought to be an Islamic terrorist attack and was reported as such on the radio (which Breivik was listening to on his way to Utoya.)

There's claims of Joel Marin starting fires at a mall the day of his attack. While he did start a fire at the school, the mall claims are seemingly unsubstantiated.
Some news reports on an attempted school attack in Kerch accidently referred to Vladislav Roslyakov as Daniil Pulkin, a considerably less successful Russian attacker.

Initial reports said that Nathan Gale shouted "You broke up Pantera" or "This is for breaking up Pantera" when there's no indication he did.
Not quite what you were looking for, but fans initially thought it was a stunt and cheered him on.

Some thought that Robert Hawkins and Pekka-Eric Auvinen announced their attacks on 4chan before committing them. The screenshots of these posts were proven false later on.

The perpetrator behind the 1993 shooting at the CIA Headquarters was initially reported to be a white male in their 20's.

The Denver Post The Day After The Shooting

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Columbine Massacre Newspaper Coverage

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That the Plymouth Shooter was 19 / Had killed his entire family (The media hadn't released his name by that point).

That there were two shooters during the Erfurt School Shooting.

Police originally thought that Bastian Bosse blew himself up as the suicide shot he sustained was so graphic.

Santa Fe High school shooting: That Dimitrios Pagourtzis harassed a girl and eventually was rejected by her causing the massacre. His attorneys proved this false.

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Santa Fe High school shooting: That Dimitrios Pagourtzis harassed a girl and eventually was rejected by her causing the massacre. His attorneys proved this false.

Wasn't another myth about Santa Fe being that he killed Shana Fisher because she was the one that rejected him?

That Ethan Crumbley tried to get into at least one classroom by impersonating a sheriff. Turns out it was an actual sheriff that got mistaken for him by the students in that classroom.

Some early reports for the Dawson college shooting stated that Kimveer Gill had been killed by police gun fire.