Jussie Smollett handed himself into police at 5am on Thursday after being charged with filing a false police report. The brothers say he paid them to carry out the attack and that he also sent a threatening letter to himself a week earlier. Smollett, who appears on the 20th Century Fox show Empire, has vowed to fight the charges with an 'aggressive' defense. The brothers' testimony came after footage emerged of them buying ski masks, a red hat and gloves in a store the day before the attack. The brothers said Smollett also sent himself this letter to the Fox studio where Empire is filmed a week before the attack.

Source: Daily Mail February 21, 2019 11:57 UTC